Raw Story Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Strong Left

Reliability: Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Raw Story in the Strong Left category of bias and as Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. Raw Story is a news and opinion website that covers national and international politics, with a mission to follow underreported news. Founded in 2004 by John Byrne, the website is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 34.52

Bias: -14.35

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
Tim Walz's personal finances are extraordinarily boring — and that may help Harris -6.33 40
'Hugely hammered': Key senator sees momentum to pass Congress stock trading ban 0 45
Trump’s ‘secretary of retribution’ has a ‘target list’ of 350 people he wants arrested -16.33 39.83
We're witnessing a large and concerning movement in American history -20.33 25.33
Inside the 'irregular warfare' campaign Putin is conducting against America -15.33 27
Liberal critics attack Trump for promising court testimony that never came -17.67 26.67
TV producers cobbled together footage to make 'overwhelmed' Trump 'sound sharp' -15.67 26.67
Rewind: Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign was a financial disaster 0 41.33
Critics hit Trump for Republican convention ratings, though ratings are higher than 2020 -14 22.33
Tommy Tuberville makes false claim that National Guard rejected Trump supporters on Jan. 6 -10.67 29.33
Early claims Trump hit by glass fragments after shooting were incorrect 0 36.33
Video shows Trump cheering on Heritage Foundation 'plans' he claims he didn't know about -5 44.67
Why this risky, unprecedented move could be the circuit breaker the Democrats needed -10.33 35.33
'Is Stephen Miller okay?': Dems gleeful as Trump adviser has 'meltdown' over Biden dropout -8 29.67
'Nice self-own': Josh Hawley called to 'resign' after Biden departure comments -11.33 28.67
'Regret': Why Rachel Maddow thinks Trump is now kicking himself over J.D. Vance pick -11.33 32.67
Shapiro, Beshear already being vetted as Harris' running mate: report 0 42
Early claims Trump hit by glass fragments undermined by New York Times photos -1.33 13
Trump ridiculed for Republican convention ratings slump -17.67 8.33
'Scared to death': Many Republicans are silently shuddering at Trump's VP pick -10 38
'All wearing maxi pads on their ear': RNC's bizarre new Trump prop spurs hilarity -18 26.33
'Old man had too much wine': Rudy Giuliani laughed at as he topples over at RNC -7.33 32.33
'Weak and tired' Trump 'steamrolled' into picking 'the guy who made the least sense' -8 28.67
Trump accused of swindling millions from his fans for a bogus 'election defense fund' -12.67 30.67
'What about Project 25?' John Fetterman turns the table on Fox News over Biden questions -14 28

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