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Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by ModernMech on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:38PM (#25724594)
I think what the above poster is reacting to is the distribution of news sources on this chart. It makes it seem like MSNBC and OAN are equal and opposite. I consume news from a great many of these sources. The only actual leftist news source I recognize on here is Jacobin. The New Yorker and MSNBC don't have a lot of content espousing the ideals of socialism and communism.

Meanwhile, you'll be hard pressed to find any daylight between the news sources in the "Right" column and Trumpism.

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Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by camhart on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:41PM (#25736414)
They describe how they come to their ratings at https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-rating-method.... They also describe what it means to be "left" vs "lean left" vs "right" vs "lean right", etc. See https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/left and https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/right (there are also ones for lean l/r, and center).

Now I'm sure these ratings aren't perfect, but I believe they're more accurate than most people's hunches.

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