• RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    How does Media Bias Fact Check assess the work done by Fivethirtyeight that they do not have access to as fivethirtyeight does not publish it?

    Also are we teally accepting Fivethirtyeight as a good source anymore?

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        3 days ago

        No, they had their own model that Nate Silver built every year he was there. IDK who took over after he left.

        Regardless they were shuttered last month. Before the closure they removed Rassmussen for being “rightward biased” despite Rassmussen being more accurate in their predictions than fivethirtyeight