• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Rating it as though they’ve published something that is untrue (what the average person expects from a factuality rating) when they explicitly haven’t failed fact checks is stupid AF.

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      2 months ago

      Just because an opinion piece doesn’t fail a fact-check doesn’t mean it’s not an opinion piece, and it should be labeled as such

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        2 months ago

        So factor that into the bias rating, not the factuality rating, because that is about bias and not whether or not they have published things that are untrue.

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          2 months ago

          Presenting an opinion as fact (such as not labeling opinion pieces) would be a factuality issue no?

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              2 months ago

              So you’re saying I’m right because an opinion is an opinion and not true or untrue. Presenting an opinion as either is a factuality issue.

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                2 months ago

                So you’re saying I’m right because an opinion is an opinion and not true or untrue.

                If it’s not untrue then it shouldn’t affect the factuality rating, not sure why this is hard to get.

                Incidentally as another user pointed out in this thread, LGBTQ Nation does label their opinion pieces as such. Until MBFC presents evidence otherwise, I’m going to conclude that what they have deemed “undisclosed opinions” are things like “trans kids exist and deserve protection”.

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        2 months ago

        Again, I think the average person is going to see factuality rating and read it as “how much of their reporting is true or untrue” and not “what amount of their reporting could potentially contain opinions according to the guy that runs MBFC”.

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      2 months ago

      Are you inferring that it’s not possible for an LBGTQ+ publication to misrepresent facts?

      To me the rating is less about how “pro,” “anti” or “in-between” something is, and more about factual reporting of details