Aol.com Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Middle

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for Aol.com according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Reliability: 43.64

Bias: -2.38

Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst.

The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the sample content’s overall reliability score.

To determine sample content’s bias score, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting or analysis from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the content’s overall bias score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the Media Bias Chart®️ on the horizontal axis, ranges from most extreme left to middle to most extreme right. The reliability rating, demonstrated on the chart’s vertical axis, rates sources on a scale from original fact reporting to analysis, opinion, propaganda and inaccurate/fabricated information.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 40 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-40 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between articles.

Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to +42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right, and scores closer to zero being minimally biased, equally balanced, or exhibiting a centrist bias.

Individual Content Sample Scores

These are the most recent content samples that Ad Fontes Media analysts have rated for this source.

Content Sample URL Bias Reliability
Takeaways from Donald Trump’s wild day of legal developments -4 45
Where is Julian Assange now? Wikileaks founder awaits extradition ruling expected Tuesday 0 45.33
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India is celebrating Holi. Here's what the festival is all about. 0 45
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Missouri teachers who support a trans minor's social transition could face felony, be put on sex offender list under proposed bill -7 42.33
Hamas responds to ceasefire proposal but accuses Israel of ‘stalling’ -4.33 41.33
Can astronauts vote from space? How the International Space Station becomes a polling place 0 46
Ultraprocessed foods linked to heart disease, diabetes, mental disorders and early death, study finds 0 45.33
Margaret Qualley Says She Knew She’d Marry Jack Antonoff: ‘I was Head-Over-Heels in Love Right Away’ 0 40.67
Reparations experts say San Francisco’s apology to black residents is a start, but not enough -5.33 44
Canada will reimpose some visa requirements on Mexicans, official says 0 44.67
NASA shares more details about moon probe's rough landing 0 46
Who exactly is Gen Alpha and Gen Z? A guide to the generation names 0 39.67
Thailand to ban recreational cannabis use by year-end, says health minister 0 41.67
Guatemala court convicts seven soldiers for 2012 Indigenous killings 0 43.33
Texas inmate executed after being convicted of double murder in 2001, insisted he was innocent 0 43.33
Benefits Street producer regrets tarring James Turner Street's reputation 0 42.67
Marcia Gay Harden on Lisa Rinna's 'So Help Me Todd' Guest Star Role and 'Housewives' Secrets (Exclusive) 0 38.33
Sarah Snook: Brian Cox Had ‘Terrifying’ Diabetic Rages on 'Succession' Set 0 39.33
Permission slip controversy in Florida school highlights debate on race education -4.33 43.67
L.A.'s newest tourist attraction? Abandoned high-rises covered in graffiti -0.67 41.67
Mariska Hargitay Gets Kisses From 'Law & Order: SVU' Co-Stars Ice-T and Octavio Pisano on Valentine's Day 0 40.67
2 arrested after dumping red powder on Constitution at National Archives 0 42.67

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