Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Real Raw News in the Most Extreme Right category of bias and as Unreliable, Inaccurate in terms of reliability. Real Raw News is a website that "contains humor, parody and satire" created by "former mainstream journalist Michael Baxter," according to the site's "About Us" page. All content on the website is created by Baxter; however, an investigation by Politifact found that Baxter is a pseudonym, and the site's creator is actually Michael Tuffin. The site has been accused of publishing misinformation and conspiracy theories. Ad Fontes Media typically does not rate sources that focus on satire; however, Real Raw News content is often presented as fact, and the author has defended it as such, in contrast to websites like The Onion or Babylon Bee, which explicitly and consistently label themselves as satire. Therefore, it falls within our methodology guidelines to analyze it like other information sources.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 3.84

Bias: 30.30

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 Slays Feeble Biden in Enemy Territory at Last Night’s Debate	18.67	7.33
JAG Claims 97 “Media” Arrests in Last Two Months	31.67	3.33
Delta Force Arrests D.C. District Attorney for TREASON	31.33	4
JAG Sentences Biden Regime’s Chief Science Officer to Death	32	3.33
FEMA Official Beaten to Death at GITMO	16	2.67
JAG Opens New Jail for MSM	23.67	3.67
Marines Arrest Treasonous Air Force Colonel in North Dakota	20.33	3.67
White Hat Mission to Arrest Biden Goes Awry	26.67	2.33
JAG Convicts, Sentences Mark Milley to Hang	32.33	2.67
White Hats Talk “Going Hamas” on the Deep State	32.67	5
Carrier Strike Group Drops Anchor; Defies Biden Regime!	30.33	4.33
Special Forces Unalive Obama Clone	32.33	2.33
Deep State Spy Caught at Trump Vegas Hotel	33	6
Mark Milley Hanged at GITMO	37.67	2.33
Special Forces Attack Deep State Listening Outposts	28	4.67