The tesseract Lemmy app, has a little overview from 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

EDIT: Sorry to stir up an old hornet’s nest.

EDIT2: Commenters have some valid criticisms of MBFC. Even if there are flaws, I would like to celebrate all attempts at elevating the conversations we are having.

  • actioninja@lemmy.4d2.org
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    5 days ago

    I generally think their overton window skews right and every once in a while I’ve seen some huge fumbles, but overall they’re more pro establishment than anything else. The only thing I’ve ever seen that could even be seen as pushing misinformation is their bellingcat rating, where they gave them “mostly factual” because they lost a lawsuit IN RUSSIA about how they were making “libelous claims” about the MH17 shootdown and who was responsible because their quite rigorous research showed that the Russian government was lying. inb4 some .ml tankie comes to go "uhm actually bellingcat is cia