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Prime minister Pedro Sánchez warned the weather in the Valencia region was still ‘wreaking havoc’
Mary Howard-Elley’s voter registration was canceled after her citizenship was questioned. Her saga shows how tough it can be for eligible voters to get reinstated.
Analysis from the Black Rose Anarchist Federation about the terrain in the US surrounding the upcoming election. This article by Black Rose / Rosa Negra members Frank Ascaso and Patrick Berkman takes stock of the present conjuncture around the 2024 presidential election. The “choice” before us, is n...
> To be clear, socialism isn’t measured by how far to the left our politicians are; nor is our proximity to fascism measured by how far to the right they are. Fascism has taken over nations after both left-wing and right-wing elections: what matters most is the people’s ability to organize themsleves and fight for something better. Whoever wins the election in November, our focus should remain on the forms of popular organization we build together.
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
Territories speaks with Emmet Grogan about ongoing struggles against polymetallic sulfide and lithium mining in Maine. As people in the Caribbean Sea and on the Atlantic Ocean try to survive another hurricane season exacerbated by climate change, we’re reminded that we are already living through the...
But have you considered the fact that yes?
Argument for a ‘red Caesar’ to rule US may seem esoteric but conservative thinktank behind idea has connections to Trump
libcom.org's brief introduction to direct action and why we advocate it, as opposed to other forms of political activity.
This link is definitely going into the "things to reply to MBFC bot with when it claims that Semafor is least-biased" folder.
It think it's a good reason to hold a grudge against Semafor for doing this, but it's not just a Semafor problem. Even the most prestigious journals have shilled for oil companies; it's not as much a failing of the organization as much as it is a feature of the capitalist system.
I like the idea of rewarding individuals with principles and integrity. We should be posting more of Bill Spindle's stuff. Cipher News appears to have good reporting as well.
Let's be clear that I am anti-Putin and anti-Kim.
Ad-hominem means "to the man" -- that is, instead of attacking the message, one attacks the credibility of the messenger. This also includes when instead of defending the credibility of a message, one defends the credibility of the messenger. Ad-hominem is exactly the purpose of the MBFC bot. Instead of fact-checking the individual article, it tells you if the article is credible or not based on its clearly biased assessment of the article outlet.
You are correct in that ad-hominem is generally a terrible way of judging credibility. I am not making an ad-hominem fallacy. I am responding to an ad-hominem fallacy that has been spammed in every thread in this community.
Groups like MBFC use their position as gatekeepers of the political spectrum to disguise radical ideas as centrist positions, and it’s ironic that !world using such a biased propaganda platform to tell its readers what is credible.
Bias is not the same thing as propaganda, propaganda is not the same thing as misinformation. Articles should be evaluated on how factual they are, and there are plenty of platforms that are doing the hard work of verifying information without putting their political ideology above their credibility. This bot is a mistake.
Before removing the bot, !news mods removed comments critical of the bot, and ignored the overwhelming negative feedback and the consensus that the bot should be removed when they opened the discussion up to the community.
!politics and !world now appear to be willing to change course. The vote to "Kill" -- stop their bot from advertising MBFC in all of their posts -- appears to be leading in both communities.
If you upvote the Kill comment so that this lead becomes a landslide, you can make it even more embarrassing and difficult for them to claim 'bots' or backtrack.
MBFC is claiming CNN is Left-Center, when it is owned by conservative billionaire John Malone. This is an example of MBFC's intentional distortion of the political spectrum by falsely representing it as dominated by a left-wing bias.
An example of CNN's actual right-wing bias is when they put an obvious Trump Supporter on their televised panel of 'undecided voters'. According to Parker Molloy from The New Republic, this isn't "an isolated case of questionable representation in CNN’s voter panels. In fact, it appears to be part of a troubling pattern stretching back years." She suggests it could be "a potential willingness to mislead viewers for the sake of compelling television." - media ownership and their profit motive, and complicity of the media elite are sources of bias that MBFC does not adequately account for.
!politics and !world now appear to be willing to consider backing away from MBFC. The vote to "Kill" -- stop their bot from advertising MBFC in all of community posts -- appears to be leading in both communities.
If you upvote the Kill comment so that this lead becomes a landslide, you can make it even more embarrassing and difficult for them to claim 'bots' or backtrack.
ABC News is a brand of Disney Advertising. It is lead by a conservative billionaire, and is not a left-biased organization.
Fact-checking is an essential tool in fighting the waves of fake news polluting the public discourse. But if that fact-checking is partisan, then it only acerbates the problem of people divided on the basics of a shared reality. Dave Van Zandt has admitted to a US-centric bias in MBFC's ratings. It's fairly easy to notice an American conservative lean in MBFC's bias ratings, as well as their credibility ratings.
A consortium of fact-checking institutions have joined together to form the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), and laid out a code of principles. You can find a list of signatories as well as vetted organizations on their website. MBFC is not a signatory to the IFCN code of principles. As a partisan organization, it violates the standards that journalists have recognized as essential to restoring trust in the veracity of the news. Partisan fact-checking sites are worse than no fact-checking at all. Just like how the proliferation of fake news undermines the authority of journalism, the growing popularity of a fact-checking site by a political hack like Dave M. Van Zandt undermines the authority of non-partisan fact-checking institutions in the public consciousness.
Please choose "Kill" -- to stop giving free advertising to MBFC on Lemmy.
Voice of America (VOA) is a state media network funded by the United States of America, whose purpose is to project soft power through journalism. In 1948, Voice of America was forbidden to broadcast directly to American citizens to protect the public from propaganda by its own government. The restriction was removed in 2013 to to adapt to the Internet age.
In 2005, the Washington Post reported that suspected Al-qaeda operatives were flown into Thailand to be detained and tortured. VOA's remote relay radio station in Udon Thani province has been widely suspected to be the torture site.
Most people do not believe that propaganda is anything that disagrees with the United States Government's foreign policy, and find the idea that the VOA is less biased than the New York Times laughable. Lemmy.World endorses these absurdities by advertising Media Bias Fact Check in every post in their community. You have a limited time to let !politics and !world know what you think.
This has happened a couple times to me: I've seen a viral context-free video or meme trending on Reddit, and think "This should be on the Feddies" -- then find a source that gives more context, only to be reminded that it's old news.
So the 'new' news here is that this is still relevant enough to trend.
Semafor has good reporting on this as well.
Treasury minister refuses to say whether those who rent out properties will be covered by Labour manifesto promise
For the first time in decades, The Washington Post will not endorse a candidate in this year’s presidential election, the newspaper’s publisher announced Friday, a decision that sparked widespread outrage among the paper’s staffers.
“The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election,” Post publisher Will Lewis said in a statement. “We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.”
The Post reported the decision not to endorse was made by the newspaper’s billionaire owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, citing two sources briefed on the matter.
-- CNN
Media Bias Fact Check is a right-wing propaganda tool to repeat the laughable lie that the media has a left-wing bias.
PTFE and chemicals used in its production are some of the best-known and widely applied PFAS, which are persistent organic pollutants. PTFE occupies more than half of all fluoropolymer production, followed by polyvinylidene fluoride (PVdF).
Great singing, coordination, and choreography.
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The Supreme Court denied hearing Novak's case Feb 2023 effectively making parody illegal in the United States.
"You know what? I'm a grad student. I've got a crappy Toyota Corolla and 50 bucks in the bank. They can shoot me in the head a billion times, and only the first bullet hurts"
-- Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang
Like the stupid titles and vocabulary of the Klan, or the infantile memes of frenworld.
Swapped out the amp link. Thanks.
I wish this were the case. While greater parental wealth means better health outcomes for their infants, it is still significantly lower than outcomes for comparable infants of wealthy parents in welfare states.
Intentionally undermining health infrastructure with the intention to harm women, working people, and minorities harms health outcomes for everyone.
I appreciate this.
Voice of America (VOA) is a state media network funded by the United States of America, whose purpose is to project soft power through journalism. In 1948, Voice of America was forbidden to broadcast directly to American citizens to protect the public from propaganda by its own government. The restriction was removed in 2013 to to adapt to the Internet age.
In 2005, the Washington Post reported that suspected Al-qaeda operatives were flown into Thailand to be detained and tortured. VOA's remote relay radio station in Udon Thani province has been widely suspected to be the torture site. VOA has been conspicuously silent on the charges. Their reporters have unparalleled access to the details of the case, but none of them appear to have done any investigation.
According to David Van Zandt in MBFC's methodology:
It’s crucial to note that our bias scale is calibrated to the political spectrum of the United States
To better understand this statement, it should be noted that MBFC regards VOA as "least biased" despite its uncontroversial status as the United States' official propaganda outlet.