Recently Lemmy.World admins have heavily started pushing an MBFC bot in their bigger subs despite it being deeply unpopular with the users.

However rating propaganda was not enough for the mods as they are now actively fundraising for MBFC as well.

Evidence MBFC is ran by a Zionist:

The bias towards any pro-israel lobby website on MBFC is astoundingly obvious. Take for example UNWatch. UNwatch is still pushing the UNRWA is Hamas propaganda despite it being fully debunked by every country.

Surely a website like this spreading blatant propagands would have a poor MBFC. rating. Let’s check it out!

MBFC knows that UNWatch is an israeli lobby but just doesn’t think that’s very important for their credibility rating

For sites such criticizing israel it works the other way around.

They do not have to fail any fact checks, just being designated as a ‘hate group’ by an israeli lobby is enough for MBFC to become a questionable source.

This is known to the lemmy.world admins and mods

Over the course of the last 9 months I have pointed out multiple times in public and private messages that MBFC is an incredibly bad source of ratings. Multiple other users have also made summaries for the .World mods and admins over the last week (and before that).

The admins have willingly ignored this criticism and now added a donation link to the MBFC bot knowing full well what MBFC stands for. Lemmy.World is directly endorsing the Zionist media lobby.

  • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’m not necessarily fully agreeing with OP’s thesis that MBFC is a pro-Zionist project, but I definitely call into question UNWatch’s credibility rating.

    I myself debunked a highly flawed and biased article from UNWatch that was posted to News@Lemmy.world last month. The post was removed by the moderator (@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world) after being determined as disinformation. (I can’t link to it, since it has been deleted, but of you want to see the details of my critique, check out this screenshot of my comment)

    Having seen that first hand, I would absolutely say that MBFC’s credibility rating system is, at the very least, questionable.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      And, for future reference to others, if you flag such posts and also make a comment in the post for why that source is unreliable, it saves us a lot of time trying to figure out whether or not that is true (although the bot is a help despite it’s flaws).

      Plus, even reliable sources can be wrong. It’s a lot easier for us to evaluate whether a post is misinformation if we’re told why the person reporting it believes it to be.

      Edit: Also, although I don’t remember this, you must have posted it to World News because I’m not a News moderator.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
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        5 months ago

        Yeah this post provides direct evidence that MBFC rates Zionist propaganda as credible and that’s very inconvenient for your narrative.