Daily Source Bias Check: Kaiser Family Foundation
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)….
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‘Alternative facts’: A psychiatrist’s guide to twisted relationships to truth
Does your nose grow if it’s a falsehood, not a lie? Thomas Hawk, CC BY-NC Ronald W. Pies, Tufts University The phrase “alternative facts” has…
Trump’s address to Congress: Expert reaction
Photo Source: Wikimedia Jordan Tama, American University School of International Service; Greg Wright, University of California, Merced, and J.B. Silvers, Case Western Reserve University Editor’s…
Trump is right: stories will dry up if the press can’t use anonymous sources
Photo Source: Wikimedia Judith Townend, University of Sussex and Richard Danbury, De Montfort University Donald Trump has declared war on anonymous sources and wants to…
Snopes is a Least Biased Source despite what you may have read
Snopes has been reviewed several times since this article was written in 2017. Their rating has changed to reflect changes in our methodology. They are…
Seeking truth among ‘alternative facts’
CC BY-SA 3.0 NY Peter Neal Peregrine, Lawrence University Part of what I do as an archaeologist is judge between competing claims to truth. Indeed,…
Natural News Banned from Google, but not for Fake News
Over the last few days there has been speculation on why Natural News (naturalnews.com) was banned by Google. On Feburary 22, 2017 approximately 140,000 pages…
Threats of violent Islamist and far-right extremism: What does the research say?
William Parkin, Seattle University; Brent Klein, Michigan State University; Jeff Gruenewald, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Joshua D. Freilich, City University of New York, and Steven…
An Exercise in Web Propaganda
CC BY-SA 3.0 NY By Richmond Shreve Viral email messages, a stealth tool in political motivation, abound during political campaigns. I collect them as samples of…
Media Bias/Fact Check Makes WND’s Fakest Fact Checkers List
WND (World Net Daily) has included Media Bias/Fact Check in their top 9 fakest news fact checkers list. Although we are not familiar with a…