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Why is Raw Story's credibility listed as "high" lol
I've completely stopped paying attention to this bot. It's pretty bad imo.
I agree with most of its other ratings though. TBF I never thought to check their rating for RawStory, but the only other rating I disagree with is their rating for Fox News.
Do you agree with the hits to credibility because outlets run stories about anti-zionism too?
There are very good reasons not to trust this bot, and rather few to trust it.
It depends. I haven't seen those stories. There's a massive gamut of anti-zionists, from reasonable skepticism and criticism of Israel and its actions to full-on antisemitism. I have seen someone else here state that one organization got bad marks for claiming that Israel is engaging in a genocide, which is completely fair since that hasn't been proven.
I don't disagree on the whole. But I think that putting 'trust' in any bot would be silly. However, knowing how right-skewed the bot is and using its blurb as a single data point with that in mind, is better (to me) than just not having it at all.
MB/FC is extremely biased and mostly reflects a single American "centrist" (really a right winger because America has two right wing parties)'s assessment of media. Largely MB/FC stands to normalize right leaning media coverage. This is particularly problematic when looking at topics like the Gaza Strip
Even then its POV is absolutely right of center in the US.
If one is going to look at politics through a "the center doesn't exist" lens, that's not functionally better than if MB/FC was biased in favor of the left.
The center does exist. But the center of American Politics is right wing globally
Yeah that's true, I've seen international liberal spout rhetoric I'd normally associate with centrists.
But trying to map international overton windows with America's doesn't always work. Left wing and right wing liberal parties in the UK for example don't map perfectly with the purported values of the Democrat and Republican parties in America.