The tesseract Lemmy app, has a little overview from mediabiasfactcheck.com (MBFC). It seems like a clever way to foster a healthy community.

If you click on the ranking you get details.

ranking details for CNN

EDIT: Sorry to stir up an old hornet’s nest.

EDIT2: Commenters have some valid criticisms of MBFC. Even if there are flaws, I would like to celebrate all attempts at elevating the conversations we are having.

    • @[email protected]English
      49•6 days ago

      Right, I almost forgot about the rage against the MBFC bot that went on for like MONTHS lmao. Seeing it downvoted to hell was hilarious though lol

      • @[email protected]English
        16•6 days ago

        Tbh I didn’t even mind what the bot was trying to do. I just remember opening what felt like every post and seeing dozens of lines taken up by the bot. I ended up just blocking it and cross-referencing with ground news myself.

      • @[email protected]English
        41•6 days ago

        Some of the news and politics communities added an automatic comment to new posts that linked to fact checking information, and a big portion of the community lost their minds about it. A lot of people found it biased, obtrusive, or unnecessary, and it generated a lot of conflict between the people who liked it or felt neutral. It went through many iterations based on the feedback before being removed entirely.

        The entire saga was fairly disruptive and everyone is glad it’s over.

      • @[email protected]English
        6•6 days ago

        account age 1 year 8 months

        LOL, not a chance unless you were straight-up absent that whole time.

          • @[email protected]English
            6•6 days ago

            “Ew” what? The fighting over MBFC was a big deal for a long time. If he was here, it’s hard to believe he wouldn’t have noticed it.

            • JackbyDevEnglish
              3•6 days ago

              Not everyone sees everything. It feels like gate keeping to assume everyone has to have seen everything based on their join date.

            • @[email protected]English
              2•6 days ago

              I blocked a lot of news communities, because it was just consuming my feed, so I also missed when this happened.