Washington Free Beacon Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Strong Right

Reliability: Unreliable, Problematic

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates The Washington Free Beacon in the Strong Right category of bias and as Unreliable, Problematic in terms of reliability. The Washington Free Beacon is an online newspaper dedicated to investigative reporting on issues such as public policy, government and media. The website states it is “dedicated to uncovering the stories that the powers that be hope will never see the light of day.” Founded in 2012, it is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 23.47

Bias: 14.41

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
Flaccid Flop: Harris-Walz 'Male' Voter Outreach Fails Miserably 19 18
Harris Ducks 'Responsibility' (and Fact Checks) in Fiery Fox News Interview 16.67 20
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Hunting Groups Dismiss 'Last-Minute Ploy' From Harris Campaign To Win Their Vote: 'Actions Speak Louder Than Words' 12.33 38.33
Biden's Long Shadow 11.33 25
Biden-Harris Admin Breached Its Own Ethics Rules In Blocking Trump-Approved Gas Project, Watchdog Group Says 6.33 28
To Spread Democracy, You Gotta Have Faith 13.67 31.67
Horny Dads for Kamala Harris 17.33 13
House Dems Peddle False Abortion Attack in Quest To Flip Lower Chamber 12 24
Kamala's Criminal Justice Reform Comrade Accused Israel and America of 'Apartheid' in Fiery Sermon After Hamas Attack 19.67 21.33
‘I Did Fries’: Kamala Harris Claims She Worked at McDonald's, but She Never Mentioned It Until She Ran for President. Did She Really Toil Beneath the Golden Arches? 16.33 33.67
'Brat' Is the Official Buzzword of the Kamala Harris Campaign. 80 Percent of Americans Don't Know What It Means. 14.67 28.33
The West Bank, Once Quiet, Is Now Flooded With Iran-Backed Terror Groups 9.67 38
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked CNN Interview Questions Reveal Stunning Partisan Bias 18 27
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik Resigns 16 29.33
Meet the Harris Delegate Quietly Pushing a BDS Resolution That Would Cripple Pittsburgh's Jewish Orgs and Punish Local Hospitals 16.67 17
WSJ Journo Spread 'Antisemitic Slurs' and Pro-Hamas 'Propaganda' Online, Watchdog Finds 13.67 33.33
Bangladesh Rejects Democratic Party's Ageism, Appoints New Leader Even Older Than Joe Biden 23.67 8
CNN Seethes With Envy as Trump-Musk Interview Crushes Failing Network's Primetime Ratings 22.33 23.33
Tim Walz Promoted Media Misrepresentations of His Military Service in 2006 Run 16.67 26.33
Tim Walz Falsely Claimed He Served in Afghanistan. When a Local Vet Called Him Out, His Office Did Nothing. 14.67 26
Before She Was Border Czar, Kamala Misappropriated Millions in Federal Grants Meant To Combat Border Crimes 22.33 11.67
Take My Governor—Please 16.33 27.67
Organizer of Violent Protest During Bibi Address Hosted Terrorist Leader on His YouTube Show 14.33 9
Hope and Cringe: Obama Endorses Woman He Belittled With Sexualized Remark 12 23.67

 

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