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Do you think aggregating ratings from multiple factors checkers would reduce that bias?

Honestly, the first time I had heard of Ground News was in a discussion about implementing it with the bot. Do you have any thoughts on alternatives or would you prefer that bit just removed from the bot’s comment?

Can you elaborate? Like, do you think the bot would be better if it didn’t label things as “left” or “right” (ie: remove the bias rating) or do you think the reliability/credibility ratings have the same issue?

Yeah… there was a whole big to do about this. One dev actually quit (can’t remember which one) because it was publicly noted that their app “scored” lower in terms of feature implementation. But feedback has been made available for app developers.

Any suggestions of alternative sources we could rely on?

I’ll be honest, that’s probably outside of the scope of what we can do for now. It’s definitely valuable feedback in general and I wish I could offer some kind of solution but that’s probably even outside the control of the instance admins.

Someone can feel free to correct me if I’m wrong!

It’s tricky because we could probably make 100 rules if we wanted to define every specific type of violation. But a lot of what you’re talking about could fall under Rules 1 and 8, which deal with civility and misinformation. If people are engaging in bad faith, feel free to report them and we’ll investigate.

Except then his supporters just read B as: Vote for the guy who made money off the libs in NY

Interesting, so you think the bot should make posts too? Like, a post for each source with a summary of relevant info? Just making sure I understand what you mean