Fox News (foxnews.com) is rated Right with Low factual reporting by Media Bias Fact Check.
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- Overall, we rate Fox News Right-biased and Questionable based on strongly partisan pro-Trump opinion programming, repeated false claims, and continued instances of conspiracy and pseudoscientific content. While its professional news division generally produces factual reporting, the frequency and prominence of misinformation and extreme one-sidedness in its highest-profile programming warrant a Low factual rating.
Detailed Report
Questionable Reasoning: Right-Wing Propaganda, Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, Numerous Failed Fact Checks
Bias Rating: RIGHT (7.8)
Factual Reporting: LOW (7.1)
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: TV Station/Website
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY
History
Fox News is an American cable television news network and digital news organization founded in 1996 by Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes. Fox News Media currently includes Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox News Digital, Fox News Audio, Fox News Podcasts, Fox News Books, Fox Nation, Fox News International, and Fox Weather. According to its About page, Fox News Channel describes itself as a 24-hour news service and is headquartered in New York City.
Fox News Media is led by CEO Suzanne Scott and President and Executive Editor Jay Wallace. Wallace oversees news, programming, operations, and editorial across Fox News Media properties. Fox maintains domestic and international reporting bureaus and employs a substantial professional newsgathering operation whose beat reporters generally produce conventional, fact-based reporting.
Fox News has sometimes been described as an “entertainment” network because its Terms of Use historically stated that it furnished its services for users’ “personal enjoyment and entertainment.” This language did not legally classify Fox News as an entertainment company or exempt it from journalistic standards. Its current Terms of Use similarly state that Fox services are provided for personal, noncommercial “use and enjoyment,” while Fox News officially identifies itself as a news organization.
A major event that affected Fox News’ credibility occurred after the 2020 presidential election. Fox hosts and guests aired false allegations concerning Dominion Voting Systems and election fraud. In April 2023, Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle Dominion’s defamation lawsuit and acknowledged in court rulings that certain claims about Dominion were false. The settlement remains relevant historical evidence of serious failures in editorial verification, although individual 2020 claims are now outside MBFC’s five-year failed-fact-check window.
Fox News’ relationship with the second Trump administration is unusually close. Pew Research Center reported in 2025 that more than a dozen former Fox News personalities had taken senior positions in the administration. Former Fox personalities serving in or associated with the administration have included Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy, among others. In October 2026, Fox announced that former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt would join the network as a contributor after leaving the administration.
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Funded by / Ownership
Fox News Media is owned by publicly traded Fox Corporation. Lachlan Murdoch serves as Executive Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Fox Corporation, while Rupert Murdoch remains Chairman Emeritus.
In September 2025, the Murdoch family resolved a long-running succession dispute. Under the agreement, trusts benefiting Lachlan, Grace, and Chloe Murdoch retained about 36.2% of Fox Corporation’s Class B voting shares, with Lachlan Murdoch, through LGC Holdco, retaining sole voting control. This arrangement effectively ensures Lachlan Murdoch’s long-term control of the company’s voting bloc.
Fox Corporation generates revenue primarily through affiliate fees paid by television distributors, advertising, digital subscriptions, streaming products, licensing, and other media operations. As a publicly traded corporation, Fox publishes annual reports, SEC filings, corporate governance documents, executive leadership information, and financial statements.
Analysis / Bias
Fox News operates two substantially different editorial products. Its professional newsgathering division employs beat reporters and anchors who regularly produce fact-based coverage using government documents, named sources, field reporting, wire services, and direct interviews. Journalists such as Bret Baier and the network’s Washington and international correspondents routinely report conventional straight news that is considerably less ideological than Fox’s prime-time and opinion programming.
However, Fox’s highest-profile opinion programs display a strong right-wing and pro-Trump perspective. Hosts including Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Jesse Watters routinely frame Democratic politicians and progressive policies negatively while portraying President Donald Trump and his administration more favorably. Pew Research Center found that Fox remains uniquely important among Republican news consumers and reported that more than a dozen former Fox personalities entered senior roles in Trump’s second administration.
The problem extends beyond ideological framing. Current prime-time hosts have repeatedly made false statements. For example, Jesse Watters claimed NOAA was “cooking the books” to exaggerate global warming; PolitiFact rated the claim False and found that it misrepresented how temperature measurements account for the urban heat-island effect. Watters was also rated False for claiming that Judge Juan Merchan overruled every defense objection while sustaining every prosecution objection during Trump’s New York criminal trial.
Likewise, Sean Hannity falsely stated that undocumented immigrants could vote in New York City elections. PolitiFact also rated Hannity False in 2025 for claiming that no prominent conservative voice had supported taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air. These examples demonstrate that factual failures remain part of Fox’s current opinion programming rather than being limited to the 2020 election period.
Coverage of the second Trump administration is also frequently highly deferential. Fox hosts regularly give administration officials extended interviews with limited adversarial questioning and often repeat administration framing, without the immediate fact-checking seen at other major television news organizations. However, Fox is not uniformly supportive of every Trump position and occasionally departs from the administration, particularly through its straight-news division. In 2026, for example, internal editorial guidance reportedly discouraged pursuing Trump’s renewed unsupported claims that foreign actors manipulated voting machines in the 2020 election, indicating that Fox has not simply adopted every administration narrative.
Therefore, describing Fox News as literally the government’s “official” state propaganda outlet is too broad. A more accurate characterization is that much of its opinion programming functions as strongly partisan, pro-Trump advocacy and frequently amplifies administration messaging, while its separate news division continues to conduct professional reporting and at times contradicts or declines to amplify unsupported claims.
Under MBFC’s factual methodology, Fox is penalized heavily for the large number of current false claims made on its programming and for extreme one-sidedness in its opinion content. Its sourcing and organizational transparency are considerably stronger than its Low rating alone might suggest; the primary credibility problems arise from opinion hosts, selective framing, repeated factual failures, and occasional promotion of conspiracy or pseudoscientific claims.
Failed Fact Checks
- “Biden’s climate requirements” will reduce red-meat consumption to roughly one burger per month. – PANTS ON FIRE (Fox News Channel, 2021)
- “Fauci doesn’t trust new vaccine research as delta variant surges.” – FALSE (Fox News Channel, 2021)
- Durham documents show Hillary Clinton hired people who hacked Trump computers and planted evidence. – FALSE (Jesse Watters, 2022)
- Trump authorized 20,000 National Guard troops for January 6 but Pelosi and Schumer rejected them. – FALSE (Sean Hannity, 2022)
- “The White House is now attempting to ban all gas ovens and burners.” – FALSE (Sean Hannity, 2023)
- Gender Queer was on the National Education Association’s summer reading list for children. – FALSE (Fox News Channel, 2023)
- A James Biden text proves Joe Biden was “in business” with Hunter Biden. – FALSE (Jesse Watters, 2023)
- NOAA is “cooking the books” to make global warming appear worse. – FALSE (Jesse Watters, 2024)
- Undocumented immigrants can vote in New York City local elections. – FALSE (Sean Hannity, 2024)
- Judge Juan Merchan overruled every defense objection and sustained every prosecution objection. – FALSE (Jesse Watters, 2024)
- Tim Walz “forced schools to stock tampons in boys’ bathrooms.” – MOSTLY FALSE (Jesse Watters, 2024)
- No prominent conservative voice wanted Jimmy Kimmel removed from the air. – FALSE (Sean Hannity, 2025)
What is the Bias of Fox News?
Overall, we rate Fox News Right-biased and Questionable based on strongly partisan pro-Trump opinion programming, repeated false claims, and continued instances of conspiracy and pseudoscientific content. While its professional news division generally produces factual reporting, the frequency and prominence of misinformation and extreme one-sidedness in its highest-profile programming warrant a Low factual rating. (7/19/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 10/27/2026)
Source: https://www.foxnews.com/
Last Updated on October 27, 2026 by Media Bias Fact Check
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Left vs. Right Bias: How we rate the bias of media sources
does this also count for the news channel?
Good
You’re going to have to put every major liberal network as Propaganda due to their lying about the Biden Laptop and the Russian Collusion the democrats pushed for 6 years.
Oh and them claiming the republicans stole the 2016 election? Remember how that was proven false but liberal networks still push it as fact?
Every liberal network claiming Biden was mentally fit for office?
No? Hello? Is this thing on?
bruh this site itself is a bit left-leaning
Thomas thinks that fox news is Righht-Center
I think that fox news is also Right-Center
mixed rating for reliability? disgraceful, you list dozens of lies. ever hear the story of the boy who cried wolf. you can’t be a truthful source and also a liar, they’re just liars. just because a broken clock is right 2x a day doesn’t mean you can use the clock to tell the time. disgusting
Nathan Kosovich asks a good question. With the exception of straight, unhosted video (a live accident scene or Congressional hearing, for example, where the video provides unedited, empirical evidence of an event) I’m far more trusting of print/textual sources than edited video sources where a host is involved. That’s especially true for disreputable, fearmongering opinion/propaganda hosts like Hannity, Ingraham, or Bartiromo (and formerly, Tucker Carlson — good riddance)! Textual media is far less prone to that kind of sensationalism and even melodrama. I dare say thinkers tend to read news, at least sometimes, for that reason. But I understand the appeal of easily-digestible and “entertaining” video sources.
But more to the point, Fox News, like other TV channels/networks, is an amalgam of shows, each with varying degrees of bias and reliability, and therefore probably invites a more granular breakdown. Ad Fontes Media, who MBFC (honorably) reviewed years ago only because many people requested it, and who they refer to as “a friend or competitor depending on how you view it” does this. They break down Fox News into its constituent shows. I have great respect for both analysis services, support them both, and hope they both thrive for a great many years, as they provide independent and critically important services for us all. It turns out they also have a similar overall assessment of Fox News, but Ad Fontes rates the website as somewhat less biased and somewhat more reliable than the TV channel.
“aberni Madoff,” you’re correct about the incessant disinformation, and yes, a great deal of it is lying. But I think it’s important to realize there’s also a lot of cleverly deceitful implying, exaggerating and simple sloppiness involved at Fox News — like the failure to vet stories before they’re reported, as Hannity has even admitted! Not all falsehoods are lies. Not all disinformation or persuasion is lying. And, with all that said, it has to be acknowledged that Fox News does also report facts. The problem is that they’re all mixed in with the falsehoods. The decision makers are smart enough to realize that this — as well as “News” in the channel name — gives Fox News a veneer of credibility. The same thing goes on with many other “news” outlets, some even worse, like OAN or Newsmax. But the mix of fact and opinion/propaganda certainly happens on the left, as well.
Along with the three examples of talking scum who I mentioned in my first paragraph, there is a straight news aspect to Fox News, as mentioned in the last sentence of the MBFC analysis: “Straight news reporting from beat reporters is generally fact-based and accurate, which earns them a Mixed factual rating.”
“aberni Madoff,” you may just need to rethink what “mixed” means. For me, personally, “Mostly factual” is the lowest I will go when choosing to invest my time in a news source, precisely because “mixed” isn’t good enough. But that doesn’t mean MBFC should ignore the factual aspect and slap a “BAD” label on Fox News, as many people (even myself) have. That would be an emotional reaction, which I could easily get from anybody, not a professional one that’s based on careful analysis. Remember also that, aside from relatively trustworthy Fox News hosts like Neil Cavuto (currently rated by MBFC as right-center, high factual reporting, high credibility), Bret Baier (right-center, mostly factual, high credibility), and previously Shepard Smith, perhaps among others, there are also some guests on various Fox News shows who are quick to point out flawed thinking in the hosts.
Too many people, understandably but unfortunately, want to oversimplify everything to binary “good/bad” viewpoints. Another example is “truth/lies,” as I touched on above.
Even Donald Trump, who incessantly spreads disinformation, and who lies habitually & frequently, is not always lying when he’s spreading falsehoods. He’s just dumb enough, gullible enough, and self-delusional enough to believe a lot of the nonsense he thinks!!
He’s corrupt as hell, but he’s not always lying. Fox News is unreliable as hell, but they’re not always lying, and they’re not always wrong. I just don’t support either one, because my standards for truth and the full picture are apparently much higher than theirs.
These are points I’ve tried to make to many people. We need a lot more nuanced and spectrum thinking in our discourse if we ever hope to have some rationality & understanding again, and less division, distrust, and hatred.
@Richard Babylon
I hate u.
@Richard Babylon
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Fow news is very bias and I support this page and why are ppl righting paragraphs abt this stuff
“This site is left-leaning” I wonder why, lol. The lack of self awareness modern right-wingers have is incredible.
Unrelated, but since there’s no comment section over there, please update We Got This Covered. They’re very political now.
if you think this site is left leaning, other right leaning news outlets got a better reliability score than fox and especially newsmax
I stumbled across this website looking for something else. I’m a news junkie and watch both conservative and liberal news sites.
I found your website to be mostly bias not because you lean to the left, which you do, but because every conservative news station per your little chart did not score well, yet most of the liberal news sites scored better.
I argue all of them, liberal or conservative, should be in the low postion on your basic ranking system. All news stations lie, exaggerate, and omit portions of the truth!!!!!!! It’s called ratings.
All news personalities, liberal or conservative, are just like politicians anytime they open the hole under their nose garbage is going to spew out.
Fuck fox, they are serial liars, the biggest propagators of misinformation in the US, and have ruined this country, it must be sad to be a conservative, always scared of our constantly changing world and their only joy gained from the suffering of the trans kids they’ve killed. Also to those who think this website is biased, that’s because reality, facts, truth, science, and morality itself all lean to the left. Fox news is funny sometimes though I’ll give them that, not when their intending to be funny though.
You didn’t list MSNBC as a “Questionable Source”
They’ve had to apologize publicly at least 6 times for making up “news”. As another person mentioned, MSNBC should be listed as Propaganda, since they misreport almost every item they present. A glaring example is Maddow uneqivically saying “If you get the vaccine, COVID stops.” We now know that’s not so, so what was her scientific proof?
Use it all the time
I appreciate this website given the ubiquitous lies and conspiracies that are rampant and Trump’s ludicrous presidency. Unfortunately, those who need this site most will not come here.
The original comment was unnecessary, as Mr. Babylon had already answered Mr. Kosovich’s question. I could not find a way to delete this comment, so this will stay. Cheers, my fellow fact checkers.
Honestly, I don’t even care about the politics, the fact that such a large and popular news network can be spreading such rampant disinformation and receive no consequences is superlatively concerning in of itself. It’s a testament to all the misinformation being spread with the Information Age.
I think that we might need the fairness doctrine back…
so fox news is bias towards democrats?