Vox Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Skews Left

Reliability: Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Vox in the Skews Left category of bias and as Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. Vox is a news and opinion website founded in 2014 with a mission to "explain the news.” Founded by Ezra Klein, Melissa Bell and Matthew Yglesias, the site is part of Vox Media. In addition to the website, Vox presents content on YouTube, podcasts and through a show on Netflix.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 39.59

Bias: -10.05

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
Nitrous, one of the oldest mind-altering drugs, is back 0 45
An Ebola-like virus is spreading in Rwanda. Why isn’t there an approved vaccine for Marburg? 0 46.33
What young voters see in Kamala Harris -2 42.33
What to do — and what to avoid — to help those affected by Hurricane Helene 0 42.33
How bad is inflammation really? 0 46.67
Tyreek Hill’s disturbing detention by police, explained -14.33 37.67
Wait, Kamala Harris owns a gun? -3 38
Biden and Harris say America’s no longer at war. Is that true? -2.67 44.33
Will Taylor Swift’s Kamala Harris endorsement actually matter? -9 35.67
Donald Trump lost the debate because he’s too online -11.33 34.67
3 winners and 2 losers from the Harris-Trump debate -14.67 32.67
Kamala Harris’s speech triggered a vintage Trump meltdown -9.33 35.33
Who is Theo Von and why is he interviewing Donald Trump? -9.67 35
https://www.vox.com/public-health/368590/covid-shots-vaccine-mrna-pfizer-biontech-moderna-cvs-flirt-walgreens -1.33 42.67
A Trump judge ruled there’s a Second Amendment right to own machine guns -10 37.67
Does RFK Jr. dropping out of the presidential race help Trump? -5 37.33
What can be done about this Supreme Court’s very worst decisions? -20.67 25.33
What we know about the police killing of Sonya Massey -4.33 42
J.D. Vance has made it impossible for Trump to run away from Project 2025 -14.67 32
There’s a fantastic cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine’s post-credits scene 0 35.33
J.D. Vance didn’t have sex with a couch. But he’s still extremely weird. -18.67 19
What Kamala Harris really thinks about Israel and Gaza -4.67 42.67
What to know about Biden’s new plan to legalize US citizens’ undocumented family members -2.33 46.67
Taking the right seriously -8 40.33
Biden’s ads haven’t been working. Now, he’s trying something new. -6.33 37.67

 

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