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The news on CNN and reported the same way on every other self-respecting news agency:

US President Joe Biden said Israel's military operation to go after Hamas had been "over the top," as he highlighted the plight of Palestinians who have endured heavy bombardment and a lack of essential supplies.

https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-02-09-24/index.html

Times of Israel:

Biden calls Gaza response ‘over the top’; unclear if remarks aimed at Israel or Hamas

US president was apparently responding to question about hostage negotiations; also said ‘a lot of innocent people are dying, and it’s gotta stop’; White House does not clarify

https://www.timesofisrael.com/biden-calls-gaza-response-over-the-top-unclear-if-remarks-aimed-at-israel-or-hamas/

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

MBFC is worth checking as a tool but nowhere remotely comprehensive. In their pursuit of neutrality, they often play Both Sides game and often only give a very shallow or dated investigation into outlets.

Newsguard was a decent one but they monetized it which made it useless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Never heard of newsguard before, will check them out!

I'm looking for a reasonable source which could be made into a bot that crawls lemmy and adds the fact check and bias details to posts. That is what made me start reading into MBFC and I'm amazed at how crap they are... no experts on board, nothing really being used for "science", mostly just based on the opinion of the founder... My partner tried to submit this ToI article for review on that site and basically there really isn't a special form to fill for that and he had to email them instead. Let's see if we hear back...