NBC News Website Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Middle

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates NBC News (website) in the Middle category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability. NBC News (website) is the news division of the National Broadcasting Company, part of NBCUniversal, owned by Comcast Corporation. Founded in 1940, it is headquartered in New York City. Its website was launched in 1996.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 43.25

Bias: -5.77

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
Trump expected to pick Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary 0 45
Matt Gaetz allegedly paid an adult woman for sex in 2017, attorney says 0 44.67
Putin issues new nuclear doctrine; Ukraine hits Russia with ATACMS for first time -2 45.33
Twitch faces criticism over Israel-Gaza war content on platform -3.33 39
The University of North Texas' body parts business: Cutting up and leasing out the poor -1.67 57.67
Trump repeats false claims that children are undergoing transgender surgery during the school day -6.67 40.33
McDonald's is the latest battlefield in the Trump-Harris fight to reach low-wage voters -3.67 44.33
India says ‘enough’ after fake bomb threats against almost 100 flights 0 47
First openly transgender lawyer to argue at Supreme Court -9.33 43.33
Elon Musk ratchets up bid to re-elect Trump with series of stunts and appearances -8.33 38.67
Harvey Weinstein diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia, sources say 0 44.33
Israel's overnight Beirut strikes leave Lebanese sleepless 0 47.67
Dockworkers on East and Gulf Coast to return to work after reaching agreement on wages 0 45.67
Texas inmate Robert Roberson could be first U.S. execution for case of 'shaken baby' death 0 46.33
Drone deliveries, slow to take flight, come to Silicon Valley 0 44.67
New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide. 0 46.67
How some of the internet’s most popular pro-Trump pundits ended up as paid messengers for Russian propaganda -11.33 44.33
Hunter Biden enters guilty plea in federal tax case, avoiding a trial -1.33 44.33
Will the Chiefs become the first team to three-peat? Here's what went wrong for past contenders 0 37.33
Asian Americans have largest voter registration increase, new analysis shows -11 32.67
Harris stands by Israel's right to defend itself while saying Gaza situation is 'heartbreaking' 0 43.67
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords, a shooting survivor, honors Biden and praises Harris in convention speech -2.33 41.67
The 5 tragic minutes that sank a superyacht 0 43.67
Video shows Ukrainian drone attack on Russian airbase Marinovka 0 44.33
Why the 'Bennifer' breakup was less of a spectacle the second time around 0 38.33

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