media bias

U.S. journalism really has become more subjective and personal — at least some of it

May 14, 2019

A deep linguistic analysis finds that newspapers today are a lot like newspapers 30 years ago. But TV news — especially cable news — has ramped up the emotion, the [...]

Violence against the media isn’t new – history shows why it largely disappeared and has now returned

September 10, 2018

The Capital Gazette in Annapolis lost five staffers in a shooting. AP/Patrick Semansky Jennifer E. Moore, University of Minnesota Duluth and Michael J. Socolow, University of [...]

More Republicans in the news? That’s not media bias

July 31, 2018

It’s difficult to measure media bias. Lawrey/shutterstock.com Dominik Stecula, University of Pennsylvania A July 20 report, analyzing news content from The New York Times [...]

Polarization, Partisanship and Junk News Consumption over Social Media in the US

February 6, 2018

What kinds of social media users read junk news? An Oxford University study analyzed the distribution of the most significant sources of junk news in the three months before [...]

A century ago, progressives were the ones shouting ‘fake news’

February 1, 2018

An 1894 cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper criticizes American newspapers’ elasticity with the truth. Library of Congress Matthew Jordan, Pennsylvania State University Donald [...]

The Making of a Questionable Source: The About Page – Part 1

September 11, 2017

This is the first in a multi-part series that will look at how Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC) determines if a source is Questionable or not. In this installment I will explain [...]

Media tested anew in ‘war’ with Trump

August 20, 2017

When Donald Trump sought this week to lump white supremacists and those protesting against them into the same bag, he triggered a political firestorm with Republicans and [...]

The real consequences of fake news

August 3, 2017

Information overload fuels 'fake news': study

This photograph taken in Paris Friday Dec. 2, 2016 shows stories from USA Daily News 24, a fake news site registered in Veles, Macedonia. USA Daily News 24 is one of roughly [...]

Being more media savvy won’t stop the spread of ‘fake news’ – here’s why

May 31, 2017

Shutterstock Craig Harper, Nottingham Trent University “Fake news” is the buzzword of 2017. Barely a day goes by without a headline about president Donald Trump [...]

The seven deadly sins of statistical misinterpretation, and how to avoid them

March 28, 2017

Where are the error bars? Shutterstock Winnifred Louis, The University of Queensland and Cassandra Chapman, The University of Queensland Statistics is a useful tool for [...]

Why polls seem to struggle to get it right – on elections and everything else

March 23, 2017

Where are the people really going? kewl/flickr, CC BY Daniel Alexander, Drake University I am a professor of mathematics, so my ears perk up when I hear someone say that [...]

How online hate infiltrates social media and politics

March 16, 2017

From person to person, the spread of online hate can be rapid. Connections via shutterstock.com Adam G. Klein, Pace University In late February, the headline of a news [...]

Daily Source Bias Check: FairVote

March 16, 2017

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 [...]

Daily Source Bias Check: Learn Liberty

March 10, 2017

RIGHT-CENTER BIAS These media sources are slightly to moderately conservative in bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that [...]

Daily Source Bias Check: Philippine Daily Inquirer

March 9, 2017

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 [...]

Daily Source Bias Check: ScienceAlert

March 8, 2017

PRO-SCIENCE These sources consist of legitimate science. Legitimate science follows the scientific method, is unbiased and does not use emotional words. These sources [...]

Daily Source Bias Check: Frontpage Magazine

March 7, 2017

QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits any of the following: extreme bias, overt propaganda, poor or no sourcing to credible information and/or is fake news. Fake [...]

Daily Source Bias Check: Left Action

March 6, 2017

LEFT BIAS These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward liberal causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded [...]

Daily Source Bias Check: CBSNews.com.co

March 5, 2017

QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits any of the following: extreme bias, overt propaganda, poor or no sourcing to credible information and/or is fake news. Fake [...]

‘Alternative facts’: A psychiatrist’s guide to twisted relationships to truth

March 2, 2017

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 recently made the news in [...]

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North Korea says nuclear talks at risk if U.S.-South Korea exercises go ahead

16 July 2019

The United States looks set to break a promise not to hold military exercises with South Korea, putt [...]

High and dry: Alpine resorts grapple with climate change

16 July 2019

The prospect of searing heatwaves driving holidaymakers to cool mountains and children asking grandp [...]

Trump administration erects another barrier to immigrants seeking U.S. asylum

16 July 2019

The Trump administration on Monday unveiled a new rule to bar almost all immigrants from applying fo [...]

Facing new asylum curb, nerves for those waiting at U.S.-Mexico border

16 July 2019

Number 12,026 - better known as Marcial Artigas, 33, from Holguin, Cuba - waited nervously at a migr [...]

World stocks mark time ahead of U.S. data, earnings

16 July 2019

Global stocks struggled to cling to recent gains on Tuesday and the dollar lingered with markets awa [...]

“This is the Agenda of White Nationalists”: The Squad Condemns Trump’s Racist Remarks

15 July 2019

The four progressive women of color targeted in President Donald Trump’s racist Twitter diatribe fou [...]

Trump Stages Full-Blown, Racist Meltdown at “Made in America” Event

15 July 2019

President Donald Trump on Monday further escalated his racist attacks against four Democratic congre [...]

The Worst Responses to Trump’s Racist Tweets

15 July 2019

While President Donald Trump continues to double down on his racist weekend tweetstorm, his fiercest [...]

This Is Why Republicans Won’t Condemn Trump’s “Go Back” Home Tweets

15 July 2019

President Donald Trump’s assertion that “both sides” were to blame for the 2017 white supremacist ra [...]

Trump Demands Apology From Democratic Congresswomen He Attacked in Racist Diatribe

15 July 2019

President Donald Trump is refusing to back down from his racist tweetstorm in which he told four Dem [...]

Trump says they ‘hate our country.’ The Democrats he attacked say the country ‘belongs to everyone.’

15 July 2019

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed for a resolution condemning the president’s remarks. [...]

Power Up: Trumpworld says attacks on minority congresswomen are actually good politics

16 July 2019

The Squad was front and center, calling for impeachment. [...]

White identity politics drives Trump, and the Republican Party under him

16 July 2019

As a 2020 political strategy, the president is betting on the combination of grievance and anti-immi [...]

Kamala Harris announces plan on drug prices as Democratic health-care debate intensifies

16 July 2019

Candidate unveils proposal to cut costs, as Biden and Sanders battle over Medicare-for-all [...]

Despite Trump’s and Tucker Carlson’s efforts, nativism is losing

15 July 2019

Not even Republicans are embracing President Trump's worldview, and the country as a whole is m [...]

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Polling is not evil voodoo magic

16 July 2019

In his unsuccessful bid to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz last fall, Beto O’Rourke tried a variety of unorthod [...]

Forty years ago, Jimmy Carter’s malignant ‘malaise’ speech

15 July 2019

Forty years ago today, Jimmy Carter gave one of the worst speeches in American presidential history. [...]

FLASHBACK: Graham says Trump is 'a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot'

15 July 2019

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham didn't quite defend President Trump's comments urging p [...]

Here are the Republicans calling out Trump’s 'go back' comments

15 July 2019

Over the weekend President Trump generated controversy for a tweet suggesting that a group of libera [...]

Florida pastor: 'Blows me away' how wrong media and politicians are about migrant shelter

12 July 2019

A Florida pastor is contesting Democrat claims that children are treated "like little prisoners [...]

Bernie Sanders - Bernie Sanders said a huge percentage of Walmart workers are black. He was off by a lot

12 July 2019

The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Bernie Sanders said a huge percentage of Walmart workers are black. [...]

Weston Pagano - Fact-checking an attack on Joe Biden about immigration deportation, detention votes

12 July 2019

The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Fact-checking an attack on Joe Biden about immigration deportati [...]

Ken Cuccinelli - Fact-checking claim about number of immigrants becoming citizens under Trump

11 July 2019

The Truth-o-Meter says: Half-True | Fact-checking claim about number of immigrants becoming citizens [...]

Cory Booker - More arrests in the US for marijuana possession than violent crimes, 2020 hopeful Cory Booker says

11 July 2019

The Truth-o-Meter says: True | More arrests in the US for marijuana possession than violent crimes, [...]

Pete Buttigieg - In viral moment, Pete Buttigieg fumbles line on racial disparities in criminal justice

10 July 2019

The Truth-o-Meter says: Mostly False | In viral moment, Pete Buttigieg fumbles line on racial dispar [...]

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media bias

U.S. journalism really has become more subjective and personal — at least some of it

Violence against the media isn’t new – history shows why it largely disappeared and has now returned

More Republicans in the news? That’s not media bias

Polarization, Partisanship and Junk News Consumption over Social Media in the US

A century ago, progressives were the ones shouting ‘fake news’

The Making of a Questionable Source: The About Page – Part 1

Media tested anew in ‘war’ with Trump

The real consequences of fake news

Being more media savvy won’t stop the spread of ‘fake news’ – here’s why

The seven deadly sins of statistical misinterpretation, and how to avoid them

Why polls seem to struggle to get it right – on elections and everything else

How online hate infiltrates social media and politics

Daily Source Bias Check: FairVote

Daily Source Bias Check: Learn Liberty

Daily Source Bias Check: Philippine Daily Inquirer

Daily Source Bias Check: ScienceAlert

Daily Source Bias Check: Frontpage Magazine

Daily Source Bias Check: Left Action

Daily Source Bias Check: CBSNews.com.co

‘Alternative facts’: A psychiatrist’s guide to twisted relationships to truth