• Voyajer@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    IDK why people didn’t just block mbfc instead of down voting it every time it shows up

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      2 months ago

      They don’t want the community to develop a trust for what very well could be a disinformation bot.

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      I’m actually kind of OK with that b/c it pushes it to the bottom of the comments, so it’s out of the way but still easy to find if i’m curious.

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        Yeah some people, like OP, will post some blog and call it credible journalism. Abs maybe it is, but how the hell would I know?

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        Yeah some people, like OP, will post some blog and call it credible journalism. Abs maybe it is, but how the hell would I know?

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          By developing your own media literacy and attempting to verify facts in the things you read by using other sources. Better to evaluate news sources yourself than relying on a biased bot.

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    I don’t really downvote the bot too often, but YouTubers I watch have made me lump ground news in with nordvpn, raycons, hellofresh, factor, fuum, betterhelp, and the whole lot of influencer companies who probably have customer acquisition costs of $60+ and seem to survive, despite usually turning out to be junk. Anything advertised that way becomes garbage in my opinion.

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      Nordvpn is quite nice, if you don’t want privacy, but different ip addresses in order to evade government surface level checks.

      Anything else ytbers promote is most probably shit. The more advertising a product needs the worse it is.

      This is why I present to you the todays sponsor: sponsor block. A plugin for your Firefox, it skips over the parts where Youtubers fart out the paid script.

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    Admins: we want some feedback from the community about the media fact check bot.

    Everyone: we hate it, turn it off.

    Admins: ok, we heard you, we’re going to keep it on.

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    2 months ago

    That was funny 👌 People downvoting cos they don’t like the bot? Or don’t like the criticism?

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        “NOOO the other team will genocide even harder so you can’t criticize my team of paid for shills nooooo”

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          Oh, you are also a MAGA who wants the guy who blasted Yemen to get back in there and “finish the job” with Gaza before turning his attention to Ukraine.