Media Bias/Fact Check

Media Bias/Fact Check
Founded2015; 9 years ago (2015)
HeadquartersGreensboro, North Carolina
OwnerDave M. Van Zandt[1]
URLmediabiasfactcheck.com Edit this at Wikidata
Current statusActive

Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an American website founded in 2015 by Dave M. Van Zandt.[1] It considers four main categories and multiple subcategories in assessing the "political bias" and "factual reporting" of media outlets,[2][3] relying on a self-described "combination of objective measures and subjective analysis".[4][5]

It is widely used, but has been criticized for its methodology.[6] Scientific studies[7] using its ratings note that ratings from Media Bias/Fact Check show high agreement with an independent fact checking dataset from 2017,[8] with NewsGuard[9] and with BuzzFeed journalists.[10]

  1. ^ a b "About". Media Bias/Fact Check. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
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  4. ^ "LibGuides: Journalism Reporting Resources: Fact Checking Resources". guides.library.illinois.edu. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
  5. ^ "Partnerships | Computational Social Science Lab". The University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
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  7. ^ Lin, Hause; Lasser, Jana; Lewandowsky, Stephan; Cole, Rocky; Gully, Andrew; Rand, David G; Pennycook, Gordon (2023-09-05). Contractor, Noshir (ed.). "High level of correspondence across different news domain quality rating sets". PNAS Nexus. 2 (9). doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad286. ISSN 2752-6542. PMC 10500312. PMID 37719749.
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