Why does the "Media Bias Fact Checker" - Bot gets downvoted so much lately?
Why does the "Media Bias Fact Checker" - Bot gets downvoted so much lately?
No comments or anything, just lots of Downvotes.
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Many on lemmy don’t like non-emotional driven facts because it makes it harder for them to manufacture the outrage.
Says an attempt to manufacture outrage.
Yeah, that's the person's usual mo in any thread
The atomic unit of propaganda isn't lies, it's emphasis. It's quite easy to manufacture outrage without lying if you can pick which facts the consumer sees and how they're contextualized.
Here's a PDF of Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent.
You've ironically demonstrated the need for a bias checking bot. People will cite biased sources without contextualizing things like that Chomsky has a notable left leaning.