Daily Source Bias Check: News Literacy Project
LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or…
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Daily Source Bias Check: The Scotsman
LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or…
In the News: Project Veritas video claiming Pfizer conducting Covid-19 mutations
On January 26, 2023, Project Veritas released a sting video on “Jordon Trishton Walker, Pfizer Director of Research and Development – Strategic Operations and mRNA…
Daily Source Bias Check: Harrisburg Sentinel
LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or…
Study reveals the key reason why fake news spreads on social media
USC researchers may have found the biggest influencer in the spread of fake news: social platforms’ structure of rewarding users for habitually sharing information. The…
Daily Source Bias Check: Spokesman-Review
LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using an appeal to…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr Sues Media Outlets Over Misinformation Initiative
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, son of the slain US presidential candidate, and other anti-vaccine activists have filed a lawsuit against several news organizations that have…
MBFC Fact-Check: Jim Jordan Flight Delays Claim
FALSE Claim By Jim Jordan (R): Don’t remember seeing this many flight delays during the Trump Administration. Don’t remember seeing this many flight delays…
Daily Source Bias Check: Traverse City Record-Eagle
LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using an appeal to…
Far-right, far-left media offer easier-to-read political news coverage than mainstream outlets, study suggests
by Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist’s Resource January 4, 2023 When researchers analyzed almost 6,000 political news stories produced by partisan and nonpartisan media outlets in…
Fact Check: NFL Player Damar Hamlin’s Cardiac Arrest Triggers Unfounded Social Media Claims
By Jessica McDonald – factcheck.org SciCheck Digest Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field and suffered a cardiac arrest moments after taking a hit…
Media Freedom Suffers Record Setbacks Globally in 2022
The easing of restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic meant more journalists were out on assignment in 2022. But that, combined with an expansion of…
Daily Source Bias Check: Hanford Sentinel
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)….
Analysis: Nearly 1,700 Journalists Killed Over Past 20 Years
Nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed worldwide over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to an analysis published…
Daily Source Bias Check: Green Bay Press Gazette
LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using an appeal to…
Media mogul Michael Bloomberg looking to buy Dow Jones or Washington Post- Axios
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, the owner of Bloomberg L.P., is interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones or the Washington Post, news website…
The Facts Underpinning Jan. 6 Committee Criminal Referrals
By Robert Farley, Eugene Kiely, Lori Robertson and D’Angelo Gore After a year and a half and more than 1,000 interviews, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th…
Daily Source Bias Check: Great Falls Tribune
LEAST BIASED These sources have minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using an appeal to…
Fact Check: The Whoppers of 2022
Factcheck.org’s annual review of the year’s worst political and viral deceptions. By D’Angelo Gore, Lori Robertson, Robert Farley, Jessica McDonald, Saranac Hale Spencer, Eugene Kiely, and Alan Jaffe Summary The midterm elections are…
Trump sues the Pulitzer Prize board for defamation over Russia collusion stories.
Former President Trump sued the Pulitzer Prize board for defamation on Wednesday, claiming that a statement issued by the group concluding a review of previous…
