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.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
    272·
    5 days ago

    Wow, I decided I would give MBFC a shot. You are greeted with an ad-infested experience with a giant start bar reminiscent of a malware site. After building up enough courage to click it I discovered it not only wanted my email but also my credit card.

    After having to fight to see the article I wanted rated I just don’t have the fortitude to the fight this horrible experience to probably be told that the following article is left center or left leaning bias.

    While I will admit this was a not Fox News praising the Trump Admin, it has an extremely neutral tone and does nothing to pushback against the obviously clownish message that the Trump team provides.

    For this reason it, is to me at least, right leaning. I guess I will never know what MBFC would rate it.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/15/federal-workers-aid-recipients-reel-trumps-team-says-so-what/

    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      243·
      5 days ago

      reminiscent of a malware site

      Well, that’s because it is malware.

      it, is to me at least, right leaning

      It’s not right leaning.

      It’s disinformation malware whose sole purpose is to move the Overton window as far right as possible.

      It labels anything short of outright fascism as far left.

    • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      165·
      5 days ago

      Firefox and ublock are your friend.

      This site doesn’t rate articles. It rates news sources. So you just have to look up what they rated the post as.

      https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-post/

      These ratings appear to b based on US sensibilities and not the rest of the world. So everything skews more to the left than it really is.

      • magnetosphere@fedia.io
        61·
        5 days ago

        This site doesn’t rate articles. It rates news sources.

        That is an extremely important distinction! Thanks!

        Edit: that wasn’t sarcasm. I honestly think it’s a valuable thing to know and remember.