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''Media Bias/Fact Check'' was also criticised by ''[[World Net Daily]]'' (''WND''), who questioned the qualifications and expertise of the founder and reviewers for the site and listed them with 8 other online fact-checking sources that they called "The 9 fakest fake-news checkers".<ref name="WND" /> ''Media Bias/Fact Check'' responded, saying that they were "thrilled to be included with Politifact, Snopes, FactCheck.org, and the International Fact-Checking Network (Poynter Institute). These are the best and most credible fact checkers in the business."; adding that ''WND'' had contacted ''Media Bias/Fact Check'' to complain about their 'far right bias' rating days before the story was posted.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/2017/02/20/media-biasfact-check-makes-wnds-fakest-fact-checkers-list/ |title=Media Bias/Fact Check Makes WND's Fakest Fact Checkers List - Media Bias/Fact Check |date=2017-02-20 |website=Media Bias/Fact Check |language=en-US |access-date=2018-12-02}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' also describes ''WND''<nowiki/>'s political lean as [[alt-right]] or [[Far-right politics|far-right]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/meet-the-alt-left-the-gops-response-to-its-alt-right-problem/|title=Introducing the ‘alt-left’: The GOP’s response to its alt-right problem|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-26}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/theres-the-major-media-and-then-theres-the-other-white-house-press-corps/2016/02/21/f69c5f92-c460-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html|title=There’s the major media. And then there’s the ‘other’ White House press corps.|last2=Bruno|first2=Debra|date=February 21, 2016|website=|publisher=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=|quote="Les Kinsolving, a reporter for the far-right World Net Daily, was a familiar White House gadfly from the days of the Nixon administration on."|first1=Debra|last1=Bruno|via=washingtonpost.com}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/12/the-highly-reliable-definitely-not-crazy-places-where-donald-trump-gets-his-news/|title=The highly reliable, definitely-not-crazy places where Donald Trump gets his news|last=|first=|date=|website=Washington Post|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-05-26|quote="WND is a leader in preserving murder cover-up theories, publishing 'exclusive reports' linking the Clintons to a plot to kill their longtime friend."}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/03/09/want-to-know-what-deconstruction-of-the-administrative-state-looks-like-look-at-trumps-staffing/|title=Want to know what ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’ looks like? Look at Trump’s staffing.|last=Posner|first=Sarah|date=2017-03-09|work=The Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-26|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|last2=Posner|first2=Sarah|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|quote="One of them is Curtis Ellis, a columnist for the far-right site WorldNetDaily, and now a special assistant to the secretary at the Labor Department."}}</ref>, a view shared by [[Michael Massing]] of the ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cjr.org/essay/unamerican_1.php|title=Un-American|last=Massing|first=Michael|date=|website=Columbia Journalism Review|publisher=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=|quote=Far-right Web sites like World Net Daily and Newsmax.com floated all kinds of specious stories about Obama that quickly careened around the blogosphere and onto talk radio.}}</ref>
''Media Bias/Fact Check'' was also criticised by ''[[World Net Daily]]'' (''WND''), who questioned the qualifications and expertise of the founder and reviewers for the site and listed them with 8 other online fact-checking sources that they called "The 9 fakest fake-news checkers".<ref name="WND" /> ''Media Bias/Fact Check'' responded, saying that they were "thrilled to be included with Politifact, Snopes, FactCheck.org, and the International Fact-Checking Network (Poynter Institute). These are the best and most credible fact checkers in the business."; adding that ''WND'' had contacted ''Media Bias/Fact Check'' to complain about their 'far right bias' rating days before the story was posted.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/2017/02/20/media-biasfact-check-makes-wnds-fakest-fact-checkers-list/ |title=Media Bias/Fact Check Makes WND's Fakest Fact Checkers List - Media Bias/Fact Check |date=2017-02-20 |website=Media Bias/Fact Check |language=en-US |access-date=2018-12-02}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' also describes ''WND''<nowiki/>'s political lean as [[alt-right]] or [[Far-right politics|far-right]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/meet-the-alt-left-the-gops-response-to-its-alt-right-problem/|title=Introducing the ‘alt-left’: The GOP’s response to its alt-right problem|website=Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-26}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/theres-the-major-media-and-then-theres-the-other-white-house-press-corps/2016/02/21/f69c5f92-c460-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html|title=There’s the major media. And then there’s the ‘other’ White House press corps.|last2=Bruno|first2=Debra|date=February 21, 2016|website=|publisher=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=|quote="Les Kinsolving, a reporter for the far-right World Net Daily, was a familiar White House gadfly from the days of the Nixon administration on."|first1=Debra|last1=Bruno|via=washingtonpost.com}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/12/the-highly-reliable-definitely-not-crazy-places-where-donald-trump-gets-his-news/|title=The highly reliable, definitely-not-crazy places where Donald Trump gets his news|last=|first=|date=|website=Washington Post|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-05-26|quote="WND is a leader in preserving murder cover-up theories, publishing 'exclusive reports' linking the Clintons to a plot to kill their longtime friend."}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/03/09/want-to-know-what-deconstruction-of-the-administrative-state-looks-like-look-at-trumps-staffing/|title=Want to know what ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’ looks like? Look at Trump’s staffing.|last=Posner|first=Sarah|date=2017-03-09|work=The Washington Post|access-date=2017-05-26|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|last2=Posner|first2=Sarah|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|quote="One of them is Curtis Ellis, a columnist for the far-right site WorldNetDaily, and now a special assistant to the secretary at the Labor Department."}}</ref>, a view shared by [[Michael Massing]] of the ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cjr.org/essay/unamerican_1.php|title=Un-American|last=Massing|first=Michael|date=|website=Columbia Journalism Review|publisher=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=|quote=Far-right Web sites like World Net Daily and Newsmax.com floated all kinds of specious stories about Obama that quickly careened around the blogosphere and onto talk radio.}}</ref>


While some organisations have disagreed with the ''Media Bias/Fact Check's'' rating of their political bias,<ref name="WND">{{Cite web |url=https://www.wnd.com/2017/02/phony-baloney-the-9-fakest-fake-news-checkers/ |title=Phony baloney: The 9 fakest fake-news checkers - WND |website=www.wnd.com |language=en-US |access-date=2018-12-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506005825/http://www.dailynewsbin.com:80/news/phony-security-site-media-bias-fact-check-is-just-one-guy-running-a-malicious-scam/26758/ |title=Fake security site "Media Bias Fact Check" is just one guy running a malicious scam |date=2016-12-16 |website=Daily News Bin |access-date=2018-12-02}}</ref><ref name="JFD">{{Cite web |url=https://www.justfactsdaily.com/media-bias-fact-check-incompetent-or-dishonest/ |title=Media Bias Fact Check: Incompetent or Dishonest? - Just Facts |date=2017-04-24 |website=Just Facts |language=en-US |access-date=2018-12-02}}</ref> others, such as ''The Libertarian Republic'' agreed saying that the rating as 'high' factual reporting and 'right-center bias' was exactly where they wanted to be.<ref>{{Cite web}}</ref>
While some organisations have disagreed with the ''Media Bias/Fact Check's'' rating of their political bias,<ref name="WND">{{Cite web |url=https://www.wnd.com/2017/02/phony-baloney-the-9-fakest-fake-news-checkers/ |title=Phony baloney: The 9 fakest fake-news checkers - WND |website=www.wnd.com |language=en-US |access-date=2018-12-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506005825/http://www.dailynewsbin.com:80/news/phony-security-site-media-bias-fact-check-is-just-one-guy-running-a-malicious-scam/26758/ |title=Fake security site "Media Bias Fact Check" is just one guy running a malicious scam |date=2016-12-16 |website=Daily News Bin |access-date=2018-12-02}}</ref><ref name="JFD">{{Cite web |url=https://www.justfactsdaily.com/media-bias-fact-check-incompetent-or-dishonest/ |title=Media Bias Fact Check: Incompetent or Dishonest? - Just Facts |date=2017-04-24 |website=Just Facts |language=en-US |access-date=2018-12-02}}</ref> others, such as ''The Libertarian Republic'' agreed saying that the rating as 'high' factual reporting and 'right-center bias' was exactly where they wanted to be.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323221903/https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/libertarian-republic-bias-best/ |title=Bias Opinion: The Libertarian Republic is Bias in Best Way. |date=2017-03-23 |access-date=2018-12-02}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicki-cobb/how-to-be-your-own-fact-c_b_14522050.html (listed)
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicki-cobb/how-to-be-your-own-fact-c_b_14522050.html (listed)

https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/libertarian-republic-bias-best/ Agreed with the bias rating of their site.


https://www.bustle.com/p/political-news-sources-you-can-trust-over-the-next-4-years-32169 (short but descriptive in an article about bias)
https://www.bustle.com/p/political-news-sources-you-can-trust-over-the-next-4-years-32169 (short but descriptive in an article about bias)

Revision as of 22:21, 2 December 2018

Media Bias/Fact Check is a fact-checking organisation that reviews news and media organisations.[1] Media sources are rated on a political bias spectrum, as well as on the accuracy of their factual reporting.

Media Bias/Fact Check describes itself as "the most comprehensive media bias resource on the internet" and they list over 2500 media organisations on their web site.[2]

Classifications and Methodology

Media Bias/Fact Check is open about the methodology and scoring structure that they use to classify sources, describing it in-depth on their web-site.[3] Media Bias/Fact Check uses a rating system based on a political spectrum with the ratings for bias as 'extreme left', 'left bias', 'left-center bias', 'least biased', 'right-center bias', 'right bias', and 'extreme right'. For sources that don't fit on the political bias spectrum, the site also uses ratings such as 'pro-science', 'conspiracy/psuedoscience', and 'satire'. Each media source is also rated by the accuracy of their reporting, on a scale including 'very high', 'high', 'mixed', 'low', and 'very low'.[3]

Media Bias/Fact Check states that they adhere to the International Fact-Checking Network Fact-checkers’ Code of Principles.[3][4]

Criticism

James D Agresti, writing for Just Facts Daily criticised Media Bias/Fact Check for what he considered an inaccurate review of the sister site Just Facts.[5] Media Bias/Fact Check apologised for the original review, saying that "The [original] reviewer clearly zeroed in on one issue and did not look at the big picture";[5] later stating that the original reviewer is no longer affiliated with their organisation.[6] Just Facts was re-classified as 'least-biased' with a 'high' factual reporting score,[5] although this was later changed to 'right-center bias'.[7] Just Facts Daily holds a similar rating, but is listed separately.[6]

Media Bias/Fact Check was also criticised by World Net Daily (WND), who questioned the qualifications and expertise of the founder and reviewers for the site and listed them with 8 other online fact-checking sources that they called "The 9 fakest fake-news checkers".[8] Media Bias/Fact Check responded, saying that they were "thrilled to be included with Politifact, Snopes, FactCheck.org, and the International Fact-Checking Network (Poynter Institute). These are the best and most credible fact checkers in the business."; adding that WND had contacted Media Bias/Fact Check to complain about their 'far right bias' rating days before the story was posted.[9] The Washington Post also describes WND's political lean as alt-right or far-right.[10][11][12][13], a view shared by Michael Massing of the Columbia Journalism Review.[14]

While some organisations have disagreed with the Media Bias/Fact Check's rating of their political bias,[8][15][5] others, such as The Libertarian Republic agreed saying that the rating as 'high' factual reporting and 'right-center bias' was exactly where they wanted to be.[16]

References

  1. ^ "About - Media Bias/Fact Check". Media Bias/Fact Check. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  2. ^ "Media Bias/Fact Check main page". Media Bias/Fact Check. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  3. ^ a b c "Methodology - Media Bias/Fact Check". Media Bias/Fact Check. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  4. ^ Slick. "IFCN Code of Principles". ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  5. ^ a b c d "Media Bias Fact Check: Incompetent or Dishonest? - Just Facts". Just Facts. 2017-04-24. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  6. ^ a b "Just Facts Daily - Media Bias/Fact Check". Media Bias/Fact Check. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  7. ^ "Just Facts - Media Bias/Fact Check". Media Bias/Fact Check. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  8. ^ a b "Phony baloney: The 9 fakest fake-news checkers - WND". www.wnd.com. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  9. ^ "Media Bias/Fact Check Makes WND's Fakest Fact Checkers List - Media Bias/Fact Check". Media Bias/Fact Check. 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  10. ^ "Introducing the 'alt-left': The GOP's response to its alt-right problem". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-05-26.
  11. ^ Bruno, Debra; Bruno, Debra (February 21, 2016). "There's the major media. And then there's the 'other' White House press corps" – via washingtonpost.com. Les Kinsolving, a reporter for the far-right World Net Daily, was a familiar White House gadfly from the days of the Nixon administration on. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  12. ^ "The highly reliable, definitely-not-crazy places where Donald Trump gets his news". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-05-26. WND is a leader in preserving murder cover-up theories, publishing 'exclusive reports' linking the Clintons to a plot to kill their longtime friend. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  13. ^ Posner, Sarah; Posner, Sarah (2017-03-09). "Want to know what 'deconstruction of the administrative state' looks like? Look at Trump's staffing". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2017-05-26. One of them is Curtis Ellis, a columnist for the far-right site WorldNetDaily, and now a special assistant to the secretary at the Labor Department. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  14. ^ Massing, Michael. "Un-American". Columbia Journalism Review. Far-right Web sites like World Net Daily and Newsmax.com floated all kinds of specious stories about Obama that quickly careened around the blogosphere and onto talk radio. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  15. ^ "Fake security site "Media Bias Fact Check" is just one guy running a malicious scam". Daily News Bin. 2016-12-16. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  16. ^ "Bias Opinion: The Libertarian Republic is Bias in Best Way". 2017-03-23. Retrieved 2018-12-02.

Sources about:

http://www.insidesources.com/one-website-sets-classify-news-expose-fake-news/

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicki-cobb/how-to-be-your-own-fact-c_b_14522050.html (listed)

https://www.bustle.com/p/political-news-sources-you-can-trust-over-the-next-4-years-32169 (short but descriptive in an article about bias)

Official Media Bias Fact Check Icon Chrome extension/for fighting fake news

http://mediashift.org/2017/09/how-to-detect-fake-news-with-these-tools-and-techniques/ Chrome extension

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/chrome-extensions-to-filter-fake-news/ Chrome extension

https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/fm-fox/2018-05-24-how-to-spot-fake-news/ "Official Media Bias Fact Check Icon"

Used by:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/inside-the-study-showing-conservatives-retweeted-russian-trolls-30-times-more-often-than-liberals

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-43745629

https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinrivers/2018/04/30/kremlin-run-news-agency-hints-at-political-motive-for-air-belgium-delay/

https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-bulletin/18-06-2018/the-bulletin-police-to-reopen-pike-river-case/

https://71republic.com/2018/01/13/us-media-bias-is-the-worst-in-the-world-according-to-pew-research-center/

https://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/08/22/google-doubles-purging-conservative-speech/

http://finance.sina.com.cn/stock/usstock/c/2017-07-03/doc-ifyhrxsk1647627.shtml

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-main-alt-right-audience-20170822-story.html (used for estimating the size of the alt-right)

https://www.newsweek.com/g00/trump-interested-seth-rich-conspiracy-new-report-says-693417?i10c.encReferrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLm56Lw%3D%3D&i10c.ua=1&i10c.dv=14

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