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• Overall, we rate Meduza Left biased based on editorial positions. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact check record.

Detailed Report

Bias Rating: LEFT
Factual Reporting: HIGH
Country: Latvia
Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

History

Founded in October 2014, Meduza or Medusa Project is a news website headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Meduza is a Russian news website that isn’t based in Russia. Galina Timchenko, who got fired as chief editor of Lenta.ru. (Russia’s most popular news website), launched Meduza in Latvia. Meduza, also known as its English version, is called “The Real Russia Today.”

According to its about page, Meduza focuses on “the most important news and feature stories from hundreds of sources in Russia and across the former Soviet Union.”

Meduza is banned in Russia due to its critical coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Read our profile on Latvian media and government.

Funded by / Ownership

Galina Timchenko is CEO and the Publisher of Meduza is Ilya Krasilshchik.  According to a Newsweek article, Timchenko prefers to keep Meduza’s investors anonymous.

Analysis / Bias

Meduza is a news aggregation website, but they also create original content. Meduza is similar to Vox, which provides card stacks that provide context and define terms within an article.

In review, Meduza uses emotionally loaded language in their headlines, such as “Leonid Slutsky must resign from the State Duma.” In articles, they typically source anti-Russian government sources such as RTVI, which is unavailable in Russia. However, Meduza also utilizes credible sources such as the BBC, The Financial Times, AP, and Reuters and Russian propaganda news sources to illustrate misleading information like Russian News Agency TASS and Russia’s international news agency RIA Novosti.

Editorially, Meduza also has an anti-Putin/Russian government bias because Putin and the Russian government, in general, are socially conservative, anti-gay, and pro religion/traditional values. They are also strongly opposed to the Russian invasion of Ukraine with articles such as this No to War An editorial from Meduza.

Failed Fact Checks

• None in the Last 5 years. Ukrainian fact-checker Polygraph.info frequently uses them.

Overall, we rate Meduza Left biased based on editorial positions. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact check record. (M. Huitsing 3/23/2018) Updated (04/25/2022)

Source: https://meduza.io/en