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Longshot, but looking to connect to someone who took Eng 101 at Arizona State University in Spring or Fall of 2020 who received the following email (or one like it). Boosts greatly appreciated.

88 views Longshot, but looking to connect to someone who took Eng 101 at Arizona State University in Spring or Fall of 2020 who received the following email (or one like it). Boosts greatly appreciated.

Media Bias/Fact Check updated their about page to include some cherry-picked results from our study. They show our count of its popularity without including a link to the source, presumably because our study is critical. They do this immediately after linking to studies that use and praise MBFC.
In other words, the misinformation dataset guy spun our study and didn't bother to cite their source.

25 views Media Bias/Fact Check updated their about page to include some cherry-picked results from our study. They show our count of its popularity without including a link to the source, presumably because our study is critical. They do this immediately after linking to studies that use and praise MBFC. In other words, the misinformation dataset guy spun our study and didn't bother to cite their source.

10 views @AxiosNews How are you still printing this dumbass-involved writing in the year of our lord 2026?

From a 1950 report for the Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments titled "Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government."
I ran into this while doing some research for something unrelated and I think that, given the times, people should know about it.
scanned copy (but no OCR; I transcribed myself for alt text so any typos are my own): https://mattachinesoc

4 views From a 1950 report for the Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments titled "Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government." I ran into this while doing some research for something unrelated and I think that, given the times, people should know about it. scanned copy (but no OCR; I transcribed myself for alt text so any typos are my own): https://mattachinesoc

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🔥 Top post Longshot, but looking to connect to someone who took Eng 101 at Arizona State University in Spring or Fall of 2020 who received the following email (or one like it). Boosts greatly appreciated. ★ 88

Let this be a lesson to misinformation scholarship on the conceptual limitations of their frameworks. Here we see actual "bias" at work, but a more complex version outside the simple left/right they love to use, and which mostly concerns … ★ 16

Media Bias/Fact Check updated their about page to include some cherry-picked results from our study. They show our count of its popularity without including a link to the source, presumably because our study is critical. They do this immed… ★ 25 One of the peer reviewers who rejected this paper put it best, so we will give them the last word on this thread: >The authors' comments about the MBFC scores reflecting the "common idea of the liberal media" miss the Okkam's [sic] Razor s… ★ 16 We go through the history of MBFC's frameworks, arguing that they have their roots in a conservative political project to discredit the press. MBFC then quantifies this propaganda campaign as data and, aided by the work of misinformation … ★ 15 We couldn't find a single paper in our database that adequately described MBFC. Instead, the misinformation literature has, with much irony, mass hallucinated institutional credentials for MBFC, referring to it as a "fact checking organiza… ★ 15 We show that MBFC's rubric is comically unrigorous. It didn't even have a serious-looking methodology section until 2025, despite its already widespread use. We then break down its current, post-2025 methodology page, which is poorly conce… ★ 13 We try to count how much of the misinformation literature relies on Dave. This turns out to be hard, because people don't put it in their references, so we have to build a database and scrape the manuscript text, but we find that it's some… ★ 14 New pre-print: Stop using Media Bias/Fact Check in research. https://theluddite.org/post/stop-using-mbfc.html This project began as a post about a year ago, in which we followed the provenance of the data from a study about misinformation… ★ 73

@AxiosNews How are you still printing this dumbass-involved writing in the year of our lord 2026? ★ 10

From a 1950 report for the Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments titled "Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government." I ran into this while doing some research for something unrelated and I thin… ★ 4 I will probably be pretty quiet here again for a while because it is election season, and I am very involved in DSA's electoral work in Vermont. If you're in the US and excited about DSA's recent wins, JOIN US! These wins are not coming o… ★ 8

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Once, long ago, we were miserable. We lived in cold, dark caves, until someone figured out fire, which lead directly to the iPhone. Most of that happened very slowly, but then we came up with capitalism. Suddenly, we went from no iPhones for 200,000 years, to the iPhone 15 — all in the last two decades! We all know that technology is progress, but progress towards what? Where exactly are we going? And who the hell is driving? What are computers even for, and why do I need one in my fridge?

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