UN News Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Middle

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 44.26

Bias: -4.68

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
UN refugee agency concerned about situation at Mexico-US border -3.67 40.33
Nations sign up to end global scourge of plastic pollution 0 49
Generation Equality: Alongside COVID lies an ‘equally horrific pandemic’ threatening women -3 47
‘Remain vigilant’ against malicious technologies that could imperil future generations -2.67 45
Record-breaking ‘pressure-cooker’ heatwave hits Canada, US northwest -1 47
USA: Shackling of aged and infirmed inmate, Mumia Abu-Jamal, ‘deplorable’ say UN rights experts -3 42.67
Guterres calls on US to lead global vaccination plan effort, climate action, welcoming Blinken to Headquarters -3 43.33
Environmental racism in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’, must end, say UN human rights experts -3 42
USA: Rights expert decries wave of anti-protest laws ‘spreading through the country’ -8 36.33
UN rights chief welcomes verdict in George Floyd murder case -0.67 43.33
Close ‘disgraceful’ Guantánamo camp – UN experts urge incoming US administration -10 42.67
Violent attempt at US Capitol to ‘overturn’ election, shocking and incendiary: independent UN experts -4.33 43.33
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/01/1082612c 0 42
Guterres urges world to ‘work together in solidarity’ as US moves to rejoin WHO -6 45
Fauci announces US intention to resume major role in global health -6 46.67
UN rights expert urges United States to remove sanctions hindering rebuilding in Syria -1.67 46.83
US pardons Blackwater guards: An ‘affront to justice’ – UN experts -0.33 47.67
Top UN officials saddened at mob violence during US Capitol breach; Bachelet decries 'incitement' by political leaders -1.89 46.56

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