Lemmy world mod asks for opinions on their blatantly biased fact-checking bot and gets more than they bargained for.

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Soliciting Feedback for Improvements to the Media Bias Fact Checker Bot - Infosec.Pub

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So... They are outsourcing fact-checking to a BOT controlled by...?
Whoever controls the BOT can control what is considered the truth. If the people in control of the BOT have any biases, those biases will be programmed into the BOT.
I dont why people have such a hate boner for bots just turn them off in ur settings. First they killed the summary bot then they killed the bias bot just ignore it. Give the people the freedom to choose if they want to see it or not. Its kinda authoritarian to say u dont have the choice to see it if u want we know whats best for you.
- It’s been a while but this comment bugs me. I have a hate boner for a bot that pushes and even codifies partisan propaganda. You’re damned right I do.
  What is authoritarian is allowing a partisan bot to “fact check”. Reminds me of this: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/8/16257502/verrit-peter-daou-aweseome
  
  Go into ur settings and turn off bot comments if u have a problem. Dont deny everyone else the right to choose if they wanna see it.
There way you worded this is hysterical.
- I think I was being generous. That bot makes China’s great firewall seem tame. Those people (lemmy world mods and their uncritical users) are lemmings, slowly signing away more of their liberties to a bot because they’re either too lazy, smug, or both. The ones that support it will fight you about it. They think it somehow helps them to be in an echo chamber, exposed to only their tribe. They are literally PROGRAMMED to call you a bot if you even remotely conflict with their view. The people on hexbear are equally into the echo chamber thing. They banned me because I wasn’t leftist enough for them. 😂
  Tribalism is so dangerous and stupid. It’s what got me to finally quit Facebook back in 2016 and now I have to see it here. Ever since governments have figured out how to achieve this kind of willing dupe environment, it keeps popping up everywhere free speech might find a way to peek through the cracks.
  Anyway, nice chat. I really should get back to being a “Russian bot”.
  
  👍 nice chat.
Coming here a few days later, has anything changed with the bot?
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world , you seem to have switched to !progressivepolitics@lemmy.world , are you not worried that as this instance is LW it would have the same issues as !politics@lemmy.world?

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