Agence France-Presse Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Middle

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Agence France-Presse in the Middle category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability. Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a global news network based in Paris, France. Founded in 1835, it is the world’s oldest news agency. The multilingual company has more than 200 bureaus in 151 countries.

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for Agence France-Presse according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Reliability: 47.27

Bias: -1.81

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.

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Biden motorcade video manipulated to add 'Let's go Brandon' chant -6 46.33
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Canada did not adopt Chinese-style social credit system 0 47.33
Tucker Carlson misrepresents government data on Covid-19 vaccines -1.6 47.8
Potato Head toys, Dr. Seuss’ books are not ‘canceled’ 0 51
Quotes from US Democrats falsely characterized as calls for violence -11.33 28.33
Human error in Michigan county vote tally sparks claims of election fraud 0 47.67
Tweets on US stimulus misrepresent Canada's Covid-19 aid 0 47
This video shares a misleading claim from an Austrian politician that 'Coca-Cola tested positive for Covid-19' 0 46
Four seasons in Wuhan 0 40
Photo of man in Trump hat does not show Nashville bomber 0 45.67
Misleading claim circulates online in Thailand that high air pollution will significantly increase the country’s Covid-19 mortality rate 0 47
Claims of Nevada voter fraud rejected by state’s top court 0 48
Map does not show ‘actual results’ of 2020 US election -1.67 48
Report alleging election fraud in Michigan county is ‘baseless’ -3 47.67
Social media posts share doctored Trump tweet alongside false claim he declared martial law -2.67 49.67
Conspiracy theory links false claim of AT&T election audit to bombing -1.67 48.33
Old photo of detained US police chief circulated in false social media posts about ‘arrest of Biden’s executive assistant on spying charges’ -0.33 50.67
France recalls envoy after Erdogan jibe at Macron 0 52

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