Vox Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Skews Left

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Vox in the Skews Left category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability. Vox is a news and opinion website founded in 2014 with a mission to "explain the news.” Founded by Ezra Klein, Melissa Bell and Matthew Yglesias, the site is part of Vox Media. In addition to the website, Vox presents content on YouTube, podcasts and through a show on Netflix.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 40.01

Bias: -9.98

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
Abortion meds can now be sold in drugstores. Here’s why that’s so important. -8 44.33
How the federal government bungled student aid this year -10.67 36.33
Republicans’ voter suppression obsession may end up helping ... Democrats? -20.33 19
The Supreme Court just handed Trump an astonishing victory -17 30
I got to see the IRS’s free tax-filing software in action. Here’s what I learned. 0 43.67
9 charts that show US factory farming is even bigger than you realize -8.67 47
How discredited health claims find a second life on TikTok -1.67 41.67
The Supreme Court will decide if the government can seize control of YouTube and Twitter -4.67 36.33
Why Lyft and Uber drivers did their largest strike ever -2 42.33
America’s unique, enduring gun problem, explained -16 35
Republicans’ humiliating failed impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas, explained -11.67 42
The Supreme Court is about to decide whether to sabotage Trump’s election theft trial -9 36.33
All the tangled conflicts in the Middle East, explained 0 43
Trump’s legal arguments for staying on the ballot are embarrassingly weak -19 33.33
Welcome to the “neomedieval era” 0 39
How to get the medication you need when it’s out of stock 0 49
The Supreme Court sure sounds eager to put Trump back on the ballot -7.33 34
Broadway is full of jukebox musicals and movie adaptions. That might not be as bad as it sounds. 0 37.33
How a fight over data made South Dakota’s bad syphilis outbreak worse -15.67 53.67
Chatbot therapy is risky. It’s also not useless. 0 41
The Supreme Court case that could shut down Trump’s election theft trial, explained -8 41.67
Why Biden may give in to Republican demands on immigration -3.67 46.33
What is Temu? The cheap online site changing the way we shop, explained 0 40.33
The weird, bad history of tampon testing 0 41.33
The stubborn sexism of American politics -3.67 42.67

 

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