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I was having trouble thinking of things to search that didn’t produce unbalanced results.
Make categories that are invariant to political alignment. This continuous line is not.
Shows different headlines for the same stories
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I think that mostly shows the limits of their analysis. The Guardian is basically the left-wing paper in the UK; I don't think there's anything to the left of them outside of fairly fringe, niche, and very fragmented publications. Internal disputes within the left play out within their comment section, whilst the news section often seems to attacking the right wing as its main goal.
I see that CNN is in the middle-of-the-road section. Search 'Trump' (naturally, it's currently the best test case) and you get: "Former President Donald Trump repeated familiar lies about the 2020 election and insulted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Saturday when speaking to Republican National Committee donors gathered for the first time since Trump’s defeat, a person in the room told CNN." 'familiar lies' '…
I think the degree of left/right is influenced by the makers of the rating API and I don't like it. Notice how there are several sights near the "right" but very few beyond "skews left" (at least for the search term "Biden"). I would rather divide it evenly into 2 categories left / right and maybe add some further categories like establishment / non-establishment. Make categories that are invariant to political align…
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ITYM they banned people for posting content encouraging violence and harassment, violating the terms of service. It just so happened that some large conservative subs were engaging in that behavior. Curious, isn't it?
They banned quite a but more than that. * Bans for mentioning a news article that mentioned the site of Hunter Biden's laptop leak. * Bans for disagreeing with the mask policies. * Bans for posting COVID-19 studies that are different than what is mainstream. * Bans for posting articles of a politician that is also an admin. * Bans for discussing election fraud. * Bans for upvoting content. The place has turned toxic.
I think the degree of left/right is influenced by the makers of the rating API and I don't like it. Notice how there are several sights near the "right" but very few beyond "skews left" (at least for the search term "Biden"). I would rather divide it evenly into 2 categories left / right and maybe add some further categories like establishment / non-establishment. Make categories that are invariant to political align…
Articially normalizing the spectrum seems even worse from an editorial perspective.
Is there a place detailing the data sources for their.news if it's different than the adfontesmedia list? Also for people not aware that list itself was very sketchy in my view. From another comment of mine:
> Sometimes i read articles from Jacobin Mag. I don’t follow it and don’t support it, however it pops up sometimes in my “feeds”. I was surprised to see it marked as really unreliable, while all articles i read there were long-form well-sourced articles. In particular, this article about US military courts is marked as highly unreliable, why? https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/us-armed-forces-capitol-hill-...