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JD Vance says school shootings are a "fact of life"
  • I mean, it's pulling from MBFC and ground news, which are not both owned by Dave Van Zandt, and he doesn't work alone. Also, when compared to other fact checking organizations, MBFC performs well, from what I've read. Well enough that if you find their output uncomfortable, you should be second guessing yourself.

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    JD Vance says school shootings are a "fact of life"
  • It's not really a bot's opinion though? It's reporting on salon in general, and letting you know that the reporting has a bias, which means generally, it might promote parts of the story that show Vance in a bad light compared to other reporting, and the. The Ground News link shows that reporting on this topic across several sources tends to be pretty non biased and factual. That's all good information to have, and saying otherwise means you want to let yourself be misled.

    And everything other than joining the topic and the source is written by humans who are trying to keep people informed.

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    ELI5 how come Discord can give out military specs and warn the FBI about a shooter without being tried to shutdown like tictok and others??
  • But following media reports, it has also admitted that China-based employees had access to US users’ data, although the company insisted it was under strict and highly limited circumstances.

    Employees of ByteDance might be Chinese, but they don't work for the government. They work for ByteDance. I haven't found anyone claiming to have proof that data in US citizens has left the company. Just fears that it could.

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    JD Vance says school shootings are a "fact of life"
  • If you're down voting a fact checker, you might want to do some self reflection on why you're upset that Salon doesn't have a perfect rating

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    ELI5 how come Discord can give out military specs and warn the FBI about a shooter without being tried to shutdown like tictok and others??
  • Mostly because of this. TikTok is the app collecting massive amounts of data on its users with dubious intent and questionable security that is currently being scapegoated, and discord is on the long list of popular apps that collect massive amounts of data their users with dubious intent and questionable security that we are not scapegoating.

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    Voters Want Politicians Like Trump and Harris to Be Celebrities.
  • That's what the article is about: how that change has pushed politicians to be open about their flaws and having much more public lives, like celebrities. Meaning that voters vote for politicians who act like celebrities. The sentiment in other comments of "No. No we don't." ignores the reality of who has been winning elections for the last 30 years.

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    Voters Want Politicians Like Trump and Harris to Be Celebrities.
  • I'm gonna guess there's a lot of down votes from people who just read the title...

    The author points out the last 30 years of presidential candidates as their evidence, and paints a pretty nuanced picture of his politicians have dealt with changing voter trends. No one wants to vote for the candidate that doesn't act like that can emphasize empathize (glide typing failed me) with them, even though that's not really the president's job.

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    Pelosi praises CA bill giving illegal migrants money to buy homes: 'American dream' 'available to more people'
  • There is the bill itself: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1840

    This isn't a new program and if you live in California and are not a migrant, you could have applied since the program started in 2016. This just adds the stipulation that migrant status should not disqualify an applicant.

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    How the U.S. Enabled Netanyahu to Sabotage a Gaza Ceasefire
  • That's helpful information, they both look like they've got good pedigrees. I'm a bit surprised that none of the normal fact and bias checker sites have anything for Drop Site.

    I don't quite understand the down votes here: Israel is a topic with lots of strong opinions, and basic good media literacy is to do research on sources you don't recognize. There's been a lot of shoddy journalism to get clicks out there, and one should be critical of the information they ingest. The Ground News bot is a good thing.

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    Wells Fargo worker found dead at her desk four days after clocking in
  • So, she was pronounced dead at end of day Tuesday, that's still like a day and a half of normal working hours where no one noticed. The fact that it happened over a weekend makes it less bad, but that still means cleaning, security, her supervisor, and her coworkers all went a full working day around her body without any interactions with her. I think it's okay to say a failure happened here, and that they should be reevaluating some procedures

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    Wells Fargo worker found dead at her desk four days after clocking in
  • You know some dipshit in upper management saw the report that she hadn't badged in for two workdays (the article says her last badge in was on a Friday), and was going to discipline her before checking on her work, or checking on her.

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