It pops up all the time, it’s a waste of time and I’m sure it has been used countless of times to discard some piece of information. It doesn’t add up anything productive to the comments, people who comment don’t even say anything they actually think they just “did you know that MBFC says this so it has to be truth?” I could go on but I think you get the idea.

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    I’m sure you would agree to if it was a source that you really accepted at least that level of criticism for (e.g. it would be a negative for the site to get a deluge of links to flat Earth websites). That is why “adding more information is worse.”

    Fair. I think I say something similar in my “lemmy.ml” post that was a bit harsh / blunt: I get why this community wouldn’t like media bias. I didn’t expand to say that the spectrum they view the world through (I’m painting with a broad brush here and assuming how capitalist something is) isn’t in the media bias website and a bunch of sources they trust are flagged as unreasonable. I also say its not a community I particularly enjoy so I’ll be off