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      Even for political content it’s damn good. Every time someone on Lemmy points to an explicit article of bias, it falls into one of 3 categories:

      • Slightly unfair bias, but still largely true
      • Article is correct, Lemmy cannot provide a reliable source proving otherwise
      • Article is incorrect, reliable source found, article amended

      The third case happened once in an article about a UN Resolution on North Korea, and it was because the original article source was slightly misinterpreted. But yea, basically what I’m trying to say is if a “political article” is “wrong” but you can’t prove it, it’s not the political article that’s wrong but you.

      Edit: ITT - People upset with my analysis, but not willing to provide sources to the articles they disagree with

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          And sometimes it literally is USA propaganda. It’s quite rare, but those articles should get fixed. Changing something like “The guerrilla fighters killed babies” to “The US State Department claimed the guerrilla fighters killed babies, but critics call the claim “wholly unfounded” [source]”.

          But yea, as I said, actually a lot more rare than you’d think.

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        Wikipedia completely slanders people it doesnt like. For example Daniele Ganser who helped to reveal Operation Gladio.