Gavin Newsom Goes After Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: 'He's Being Used' By Conservatives

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gavin-newsom-robert-f-kennedy-jr-used-by-conservatives_n_64fbc325e4b06deaa9849702

#GavinNewsom #RobertFKennedyJr #Conservatives #CaliforniaPolitics #VaccineDebate #MediaBias #Politics #News

um yeah https://snuggleduck.com/um-yeah/ #MediaBias

Feels like a lot of news today. Here's another one: A local publication serving Chandler Arizona sided with anti-trans legislators and against a US District Court judge, singling out a local 11-yr-old by misgendering her in the headline and the lede. #trans #news #journalism #MediaBias

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/az-local-publication-singles-out-11-year-old-for-misgendering-coverage

A story out of Gainesville, FL describes a man approaching a woman, then pulling out a gun and shooting her when he realized she was transgender.

Thankfully, the bullet only grazed her so she doesn't seem to have been badly hurt.

However, I found this really fucked up: A local news report described this potential hate crime as "mistaken identity." #trans #journalism #MediaBias

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/gainesville-tv-news-calls-bias-motivated-shooting-mistaken-identity

New York Times exposes colonial fossil fuel biases -https://www.thecanary.co/us/2023/08/14/ny-times-exposes-colonial-fossil-fuel-biases-one-writers-response-hawaiian-wildfires-rolex/ #Hawaii #Colonialism #ColonialBias #SettlerBias #Racism #ClimateDisaster #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #FossilFuelIndustry #MediaBias #NYTimes

Oh FFS WaPo. Group in UK gives LLMs the Political Compass test. Result: “a series of models developed by Google called…BERT, were more socially conservative,... Facebook’s LLaMA model was slightly more authoritarian and right wing,…OpenAI’s GPT-4, … more economically and socially liberal.”
Headline: “ChatGPT leans liberal, new research shows” #MediaBias

@davidzipper

The NYT should be considered a #FossilFuel shill, not serious news anymore.

#MediaBias
#ClimateCrisis

@rchusid "Failed record"???
What part of lower unemployment, lower inflation. increased jobs don't you understand???
#MediaBias

Rabbit rabbit rabbit

Rabbit holes

The desire for media literacy takes us down convoluted pathways

https://acrlog.org/2021/02/23/complex-or-clickbait-the-problematic-media-bias-chart/comment-page-1/

#mediabias #literacy #adfontes #caveatemptor

#MediaBias #Cricinfo writers seem to be averse to entertaining #Cricket

does NPR read NPR https://snuggleduck.com/does-npr-read-npr/ #MediaBias #npr

Okay, here’s my long-overdue list of media-bias-aware and fact-checking sites, suggested by you lovely people. Interesting stuff to be found in all of them. Their inclusion does not indicate endorsement by me, your mileage may vary, do not exceed recommended dose.

I’ll boost later today to catch the other hemispheres.

#Media #SocialMedia #Bias #MediaBias #FactChecking

Associated Press Fact Check
https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check

Ground News
Aggregator and bias ratings
https://ground.news

BBC News Reality Check
Analyzing politician’s claims, debunking
https://www.bbc.com/news/reality_check

Reuters Fact Check
https://www.reuters.com/fact-check

TinEye Reverse Image Search
Good for tracking down the oldest version on the web of that image
https://tineye.com

HoaxEye
Debunking fake images
https://hoaxeye.com

Snopes
Fact checking
https://www.snopes.com

SourceWatch
“We Track Corporations and PR Spin”
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php

The Factual
News w bias & veracity ratings
https://www.thefactual.com/news

AllSides
News from multiple perspectives
https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news

Ad Fontes Media
Media Bias chart
https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/

Google Fact Check Explorer
https://toolbox.google.com/factcheck/explorer

Metabunk
Fact-checking, debunking
https://www.metabunk.org/home/

Fake History Hunter
Debunking historical claims, old photos
https://fakehistoryhunter.net

BBC News Reality Check
Analyzing politician’s claims, debunking
https://www.bbc.com/news/reality_check

Reuters Fact Check
https://www.reuters.com/fact-check

France 24 Observers
International affairs stories submitted by eyewitnesses, verified and fact-checked
https://observers.france24.com/en/

Africa Check
“Africa Check is a non-profit organisation set up in 2012 to promote accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa.”
https://africacheck.org

Lead Stories
Fact checking media, viral stories on both sides of political spectrum
https://leadstories.com

StopFake
Journalists, J-school grads fact checking
https://www.stopfake.org/en/main/

PolitiFact
Fact checking talking heads, news, social media
https://www.politifact.com

TheJournal (Ireland) Factcheck
Fact checking, debunking
https://www.thejournal.ie/factcheck/news/

Common Sense Media
“Reviews for what your kids are into (before they get into it)”
https://www.commonsensemedia.org

ABC news, a source you can trust https://snuggleduck.com/abc-news-a-source-you-can-trust/ #MediaBias #abcnews

@shrikant Yes I agree that everything and anything can be improved, and that is no excuse for taking the focus off of the inexcusable #mediabias and #journalistic #malpractice I am attempting to expose and discuss here.

Personally I think that Mastodon would benefit far more from a well organized counter #disinformation campaign against the purveyors of this #propaganda tripe even more than a slightly better #UX.

that’s what I heard, too https://snuggleduck.com/thats-what-i-heard-too/ #soundoffreedom #theguardian #MediaBias

Then she cites Richard Tofel, longtime president of ProPublica, who states, “Historically, a president running for reelection with a 3% inflation rate and 3.6% unemployment rate would be pretty much a shoo-in. Also, historically, the press wasn’t afraid to say when the economy was strong.”

#inflation #EconomicRecovery #Biden #MediaFail #MediaBias
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Margaret Sullivan notes the grudging and faint way the mainstream media has handled news that the Biden administration has brought inflation down to 3%, with the stock market rising as a result. She looks at how CNN, WaPo, and NYTimes have handled the story.

#inflation #EconomicRecovery #Biden #MediaFail #MediaBias
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https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/media-maelstrom-the-damage-done-when

I'm sure there are worse articles about the UPS strike but this one by #RaniMolla in #Vox is pretty disappointing:

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/7/11/23791025/ups-strike-negotiations-demands-teamsters-union

It takes 10 paragraphs before presenting the workers' side and after fear-mongering about all the "disruption" to consumers, businesses and the economy to claim "a UPS strike would be worse than you think", they bury near the end:

"If workers do strike, experts say it likely won’t last long, and UPS could come back to the table quickly in hopes of limiting the damage to its bottom line."

#UPS #union #strike #workers #MediaBias #media #bias

Recently discovered https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news website. Let's you see #mediabias on stories. Enjoying finding new reasons to be incensed at the #GQP

Listening to coverage of the latest #HeatWaves on the #BBCWorldService – explaining that #ElNiño will likely make 2023 the hottest year on record.

Not once have they mentioned #GlobalHeating.

#MediaBias? Or just crap #Journalism?

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