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: 42.78

Bias: -5.69

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
After a young woman was shot dead in Texas, a medical school harvested her body parts	-2.67	55
U.S. delegation arrives in Syrian capital for first meetings since Assad's fall	0	46
Woman who accused Duke lacrosse players of rape in 2006 now admits she lied	-1	44.67
Images appear to show Russia dismantling military equipment in Syria	-1.33	49
Mother of suspect in CEO's killing told police person of interest could be her son, sources say	0.33	45.33
He faked his own death in 2020. A trail of rape and fraud allegations finally caught up to him.	-0.67	49.33
Women's soccer star Deyna Castellanos says college in the U.S. changed her life — and she's paying it forward	-3.33	44.67
Biden's clemency and pardon list includes former elected official, lawyers and medical bill company owner	0	42
Trump aims to end birthright citizenship, says American citizens with family here illegally may be deported	-1.33	41.33
Hunter Biden prosecutor pushes back on president's politicization claim	-0.67	46.33
White House press secretary defends Hunter Biden pardon: 'Enough is enough'	-1	35
Tesla CEO Elon Musk loses bid to get $56 billion pay package reinstated	-4.33	41.33
Doc accused of abusing Indiana University basketball players faces competency hearing	0	45
Women suing Idaho after they were denied abortions will tell their stories in court	-4.67	45
Justice Thomas cites claim that Covid vaccines are made with cells from 'aborted children'	-6.67	14.33
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