Sources JSON not in sync with MBFC site revision

[hearvox]

Thanks for the great extension. Invaluable in doing fake-news research.

There might be a discrepancy between the extension's data and the MBFC-site ratings. The extension has CNN.com as Factual: "Mostly Factual". While the MBFC site has revised that rating to "Mixed". https://www.cnn.com/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cnn/

That change was made a month ago: "3/9/2020 – Based on a 5th failed fact check, CNN is moved from Mostly Factual to Mixed factual reporting" https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/changes-corrections/

I checked several other recent revisions and the extension accurately display their MBFC changes: /swarajya/ /southern-patriot-news/ /msnbc/

So discrepancy might be unique to CNN. Tested in both the 2.0.7 Production and Beta versions. And (what I'm guessing is) the JSON for both still lists CNN as "MF": /docs/revised/csources.json /docs/v2/csources.json

Happy bug hunting.

[drmikecrowe]

In theory, these are sync'd every other day. And, the extention may cache it for a day, so worst case scenario it could take 3d to sync. However, looks like there's something else systematic going on. Checking the source @ mbfc and will get back to you on this

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 11:16 AM Barrett Golding notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for the great extension. Invaluable in doing fake-news research.

There might be a discrepancy between the extension's data and the MBFC-site ratings. The extension has CNN.com as Factual: "Mostly Factual". While the MBFC site has revised that rating to "Mixed". https://www.cnn.com/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cnn/

That change was made a month ago: "3/9/2020 – Based on a 5th failed fact check, CNN is moved from Mostly Factual to Mixed factual reporting" https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/changes-corrections/

I checked several other recent revisions and the extension accurately display their MBFC changes: /swarajya/ /southern-patriot-news/ /msnbc/

So discrepancy might be unique to CNN. Tested in both the 2.0.7 Production and Beta versions. And (what I'm guessing is) the JSON for both still lists CNN as "MF": /docs/revised/csources.json /docs/v2/csources.json

Happy bug hunting.

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[hearvox]

Stumbled upon another discrepancy. For USA Is Online, the Factual Reporting is rated Very Low: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/usa-is-online/

But /v2/csources.json lists no "r": "VL" (or any "r" at all):

"usaisonline.com": {
"b": "FN",
"d": "usaisonline.com",
"n": "USA is Online",
"P": [],
"u": "usa-is-online"
},

[drmikecrowe]

@hearvox -- Sorry for the delay (I missed your reply). This is actually an issue @ MBFC -- I'll notify him