Media Bias/Fact Check

In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, lawyers for Dr. Blasey, who accused Judge Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers, asked to continue negotiating the details of her appearance. Dr. Blasey’s representatives said separately that she wanted to appear before the committee on Thursday, though that detail was still [...]

Do you want to be friends with this person? Sasun Bughdaryan Arun Vishwanath, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York The first step in conducting online propaganda efforts and misinformation campaigns is almost always a fake social media profile. Phony profiles for nonexistent people worm their way into the social networks of real [...]

LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes).  The reporting is factual and usually sourced.  These are the most credible media sources. See all Least Biased Sources. Factual Reporting: HIGH World Press Freedom Rank: USA [...]

By Eugene Kiely – Factcheck.org President Donald Trump on several occasions has taken credit for making Medicare “stronger.” In one instance, he said, “Medicare will be $700 billion stronger over the next decade thanks to our growth.” In fact, Medicare’s finances have worsened since he took office, and economic growth is not [...]

By Robert Farley – Factcheck.org In an op-ed, Hillary Clinton went too far with her criticism that President Donald Trump has shown a “complete unwillingness to stop” Russian interference in U.S. elections. The Trump administration has taken a number of steps to combat foreign interference in future elections. Among them: The [...]

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS These media sources are slightly to moderately conservative in bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor conservative causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information, but may require [...]

LEFT-CENTER BIAS These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias.  They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes.  These sources are generally trustworthy for information, but may require further [...]

By Lori Robertson – Factcheck.org Former President Barack Obama claimed that Republicans’ “sabotage of the Affordable Care Act has already cost more than 3 million Americans their health insurance.” That’s according to one estimate, but another found no significant change in the rate or the number of uninsured from 2016 to 2017. As [...]

By Eugene Kiely, Robert Farley, Lori Robertson and D’Angelo Gore – Factcheck.org In a pair of early morning tweets, President Donald Trump rejected Puerto Rico’s official estimate of 2,975 hurricane-related deaths after Hurricane Maria and, in the process, made some false and misleading claims: Trump said that “3,000 people [...]

Republished with permission by Knowhere News President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is ineffective to the point that it is as if Trump does not have anyone occupying the position. “I don’t have an attorney general,” Trump said in an interview that was published Wednesday by Hill.TV. [...]