Today we’re releasing the February edition of the Podcast/Audio Media Bias Chart®, which includes 49 podcasts rated by our team for bias and reliability.

A few things to note about this edition of the podcast chart:

• The Dan Bongino Show has returned to the chart. The podcast was removed from the chart after Bongino was named deputy director of the FBI last year. He left that position in January and returned to his podcast, so it has been re-added to the chart. We have since rated new content from the show, but it’s still in approximately the same place it was before. 
• America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes makes its first appearance on the monthly chart. Fuentes, who has expressed white nationalist and antisemitic views, has been banned from many social media platforms, including YouTube, due to violating hate speech policies. If you had to guess where this podcast would land based on that information alone, you would probably be correct!
• Also new to this chart is Reality Check with Ross Coulthart. You’ll find it on the bottom middle of this chart. Not many sources fall in this portion of the chart because unreliable news sources are often produced for explicitly partisan purposes and audiences, resulting in high left or right bias scores, according to our analysis. Reality Check with Ross Coulthart describes itself as taking “a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines.” Our analysts found the content to sometimes contain misleading or fabricated information, but the topics aren’t political. That led to its unique placement on the Media Bias Chart®.
• Podcasts by many news influencers are included on this chart, including Joe Rogan, Candace Owens, Jimmy Dore, and others. News influencers are people with large social media followings who comment on news and political issues. Many news influencers are journalists, but many are not. We examined our analysis of news influencers in this video.

Our team started rated podcasts in 2023, and since then we’ve rated more than 3,400 episodes of 870 podcasts. We choose only a few dozen podcasts to include on each month’s static Media Bias Chart because it’s impossible to show all of them in one image. In addition, in order to make the logos as large and as readable as possible, we’ve magnified a portion of the chart and removed portions around the edges that contain no sources. A list of the 49 sources on this chart can be found here.

Sources in the green box of the chart have been found by our team to consistently provide minimally biased, fact-based information. Eleven podcasts fall within the green box on the February chart: 

• Autocracy in America
• Banished with Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder
• CANADALAND
• Fox News Rundown
• Horns of a Dilemma
• NPR News Now
• Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order
• The Dispatch Podcast
• The President’s Daily Brief with Mike Baker
• This Morning with Gordon Deal
• WSJ: Tech News Briefing

More podcasts fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on charts in the future.

In addition to America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes and Reality Check with Ross Coulhaart, eight podcasts are included on the chart this month for the first time (three of these fall within the green box):

• Americano
• CANADALAND
• Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order
• The Joy Reid Show
• The Lever: MASTER PLAN – David Sirota
• The President’s Daily Brief with Mike Baker
• Unsafe with Ann Coulter
• Word on Fire Show Podcast

If you’re looking for information about a podcast that’s not on the February chart, you can search for it on our free mobile app for Apple and Android. You also can access the free version of the interactive chart on the website, which allows access to data on 250 of our top sources. Daily search limits apply.

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