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The MB/FC site not only analyzes sources on a political bias spectrum, but also on the accuracy of their factual reporting. ---Lib Guides


The Media Bias/Fact Check website "makes judgments not on individual items but on entire sites."[1] Ranking the bias of the entire source displays the potential bias there may be overall on the articles the source publishes.



  1. ^ Gilchrist, G (9/29/2021). "Iffy Quotient: A Platform Health Metric for Misinformation" (PDF). {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help); Check date values in: |date= and |archive-date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)