The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC

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The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC - Lemmy.World

The tesseract Lemmy app [tesseract.dubvee.org/], has a little overview from mediabiasfactcheck.com [http://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 [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/995f5c07-e4c7-4f6a-9b4c-6fdb43f866a2.png]

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.

washingtonpost.com/…/federal-workers-aid-recipien…

As federal workers and aid recipients reel, Trump’s team says: So what?

“They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan,” a White House official said.

The Washington Post

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.

I’m again MBFC for many reasons but it isn’t actually malware. It’s a shitty site that wants your info and has dark patterns galore, but it isn’t malware.
It has malicious intent, therefore it’s malware. 🤷‍♂️
That’s not what malware means and you know it. Again, I don’t like MBFC. I don’t support or use then at all. But malware is a specific thing. Let’s stick to the facts as the facts about them are bad enough on their own.
Any software intended to cause harm is malware. MBFC is software intended to cause harm. MBFC is malware.