Overall Score

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

Reliability: 24.55

Bias: 12.90

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
The Lakewood Church Shooter Story is Not so Simple	25.33	6
Putin: Of Course We Prefer Biden	13.33	23.67
BREAKING: Fox News, Dominion settle defamation case as trial starts	4.67	35.33
NY Times Opinion: The downside to shouting other people down	9.67	34.33
Manchin: I'm shocked, shocked that Biden's administration betrayed me on inflation and deficit reduction	16.67	27.33
Zelensky shutting down another house of worship	18.67	24
Democrats have fallen in love with the Security State	19	24.67
Tablet: The Hoax of the Century	19.33	25
Schumer's big deal: Whither Sinema -- and House Dems?	16.33	31.33
House Republican: Biden sent pallets of baby formula to the border for children of illegal migrants	14.33	25
Manchin to Biden: Stop buying Russian oil and ramp up domestic production now	17.33	30.67
Verdict reached in the Jussie Smollett case: Guilty on five of six counts (Update)	1	40.67
Begun, the Big Bird wars have	-10	31.33
The ridiculous push to regulate Facebook/Instagram	14.33	20
Who won the NYC mayoral primary? Nobody knows	11.67	33
"It's all about April": Big scoop is ... CBS 62 required COVID testing and masks in station?	9.67	33
Democrats' sullen acceptance of voter ID laws continues	14	31
'Seething' progressives demand end to filibuster as Republicans block Democrats' voting bill	15	34
Tennessee congressman on UFOs: There's something out there "we can't handle"	9.33	21
Breaking: Russia launches massive military exercises near Hawaii	13.33	29.67
Released fire: Hamas attacks Israel with incendiary balloons	13	26
Demand Justice renews its push to oust Justice Breyer	11.67	33.33
Harvey Weinstein is heading for California	3.33	30.33
A mystery: Why have total daily vaccinations started climbing again?	1.67	42
Gamechanger? Manchin floats grand bargain on voting rights -- including mandatory voter ID	3.67	39