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New York times is not left of center anymore. This bot is arbitrary. Mods please pin it to the bottom. It's seriously fucking up the feed for a LOT of people. I don't care how much Ground News is paying for the real estate.
Sure. lol Dramatic much? Oh the poor feed is suffering so, so greatly, it's changed sooooooooo much now. Look, it's completely different now!
That said, I do kinda like the idea of it being pinned to the bottom. I don't think that would hurt anything, everyone would still see it.
Could at least make it not upvote itself, then it'll kinda just tend to stay down there naturally.
They are very upfront about the bot describing bias against the American center and not the global or whatever "objective" standard people try to insert. By that metric, center-left perfectly describes NYT. Their editorial board has posted multiple times describing Trump as an unfit candidate and they have historically endorsed the democratic candidate. They're obviously not even American leftist and they're not center-left on the global scale, but it's all relative.
I personally like the extra information and those who don't are free to block the bot. I have seen commentor twisting themselves into absolute pretzels to avoid admitting that they can simply block the bot.