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[-] dumbass@leminal.space 33 points 1 day ago

What does it say? I blocked that stupid bot ages ago.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They added a line to the bot that includes Wikipedia’s stance on a source. And Wikipedia doesn’t consider MBFC to be reliable, so the bot reports that.

If you scroll below that, MBFC rates themselves as maximally reliable, which I’m sure is based off of a rigorous and completely neutral assessment.

Edit: although, reading the links in question they don’t seem to correspond to what the bot is saying. Perhaps this is some sort of mistake in how it was coded.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 10 points 1 day ago

It's not a mistake, just confusing UX. The text in question comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBFC

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It doesn’t though. Or at least, I didn’t see anything resembling that on that page. If you can find it, let me know. It’s possible I missed it.

[-] taipan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago
[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago

Thanks, it seems to me like it should link here rather than to the main article.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 day ago

sorry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MBFC. that's what i get for attempting type a link out on mobile

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