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What's it like to be someone who watches banned content on social media so you don't have to?

When determining bias, there isn’t any true scientific formula that is 100% objective.  There are objective measures that can be calculated, but ultimately there will be some degree of subjective judgement to determine these.  On each page we have put up a scale with a yellow dot that shows the degree of bias for each source.  Each page also has a “Notes” section that gives some details about the source and an explanation of their bias.  When calculating bias we are not just looking at political bias, but also how factual the information is and if they provide links to credible, verifiable sources. Therefore, the yellow dot may indicate political bias or how factual a source is, or in many cases, both.  Further, we have placed a voting poll on each page for readers to vote on the bias of the source.  This provides more information for the media consumer when deciding whether to trust a source.  This is similar to how movie sites such as IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes rate their movies.  They provide the reviewer’s information and also allow the public to rate the movie.  This gives two perspectives in which people can decide whom to trust.  This voting poll also [...]

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