Bloomberg News Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Middle

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Bloomberg News in the Middle category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability. Bloomberg News is an international news agency founded by Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler in 1990. Originally focused on business news, the agency now covers a variety of topics.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 43.59

Bias: -2.86

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
Are you a robot? 0 41.33
Putin Touts Close India-Russia Ties in Phone Call With Modi 0 42.33
Are you a robot? 0 43
Are you a robot? 0 48.67
Bidenomics Explained 3.67 40
Are you a robot? 0 44
Are you a robot? 0 48.67
Are you a robot? 0 41
Are you a robot? 0 42.67
Are you a robot? 0 41
Are you a robot? 0 42.33
Are you a robot? 0 44.67
Gun Violence in the US Far Exceeds Levels in Other Rich Nations -2.67 34.67
Are you a robot? 0 40
Are you a robot? 0 45.33
Threads Had Big Launch Energy. Twitter Is Under Pressure. 0 36.67
Are you a robot? 0 43
Trump ‘Standing Order’ to Declassify Not Found by DOJ, Intelligence Agency -2 50
Are you a robot? 0 45.33
Mortgage Investors Keep a Wary Eye on Surging Home Purchases 0 43.67
Lab-Grown Meat Has a Bigger Problem Than the Lab -11 17.67
S&P Flat; Tesla Drops, IBM Gains in Late Trading: Markets Wrap 0 43
Are you a robot? 0 39.33
Are you a robot? 3 44
Are you a robot? 0.67 42

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