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Allegations of BBC political bias in 2025 erupted into a full-blown crisis after a leaked memo and an edited Trump video prompted senior resignations and widespread debate; public trust is sharply div...
is not monolithically biased in a single ideological direction, but it repeatedly faces credible accusations of both left‑ and right‑wing slant and has documented editorial failings that have damaged ...
Questions about GB News’s bias reflect sustained scrutiny: independent trackers and critics label GB News as right‑leaning and question its fact‑checking and transparency, while audience figures show ...
Multiple long form trackers and fact‑checking projects concluded that Donald Trump made an unusually large number of false or misleading public claims during his presidency — the Washington Post’s dat...
The BBC is the subject of intense debate in late 2025 after a leaked memo alleging systemic editorial failings and the resignations of senior executives; Reuters and Reuters Institute reporting note t...
Counting lies by presidents depends on methodology: fact‑check tallies and journalistic counts single out Donald Trump as having the largest recorded volume—The Washington Post’s count cited in multip...
Reuters is widely regarded as a credible international news organization, supported by independent trust and bias ratings and an internal record of journalistic awards, yet criticisms and individual d...
is not experiencing an identical political landscape to the , but it is showing important echoes—growing fragmentation, rising populist forces and cultural cross-currents—rather than a wholesale repli...
National surveys in 2024 show public trust in “the media” broadly at historic lows — Gallup reports only about 31% (Sept. 3–15, 2024) and other Gallup measures later record 28% — and sectoral polls id...
Claims about BBC impartiality are longstanding and contested: recent reporting shows a major 2025 crisis over an edited Trump clip and a leaked memo alleging “systemic” editorial bias that prompted re...
The BBC remains one of the most widely used and, by many metrics, most trusted news organisations in the UK, but trust has fallen in recent years and assessments of bias and reliability vary across in...
A few recent, relevant studies and reports assess media accuracy indirectly or by developing detection tools; for example, a 2025 Scientific Reports paper presents a hybrid deep‑learning framework to ...
Public trust in legacy media is low but uneven in 2025: Gallup finds U.S. trust near historical lows (34% saying media reports “fully, accurately and fairly”) , Reuters Institute documents falling eng...
Western governments, major human-rights NGOs and watchdogs document widespread repression in China: credible reports say hundreds of thousands were interned in Xinjiang, media and internet are tightly...
Reuters is widely portrayed in the provided analyses as a global leader in financial and general news with a strong digital presence, a heavy emphasis on transparency and corrections, and a growing fo...
The short answer: not categorically—’s feed has increasingly leaned on automated, AI-driven curation that has produced both efficient personalization and notable quality failures, so for many users it...
In 2025 the strongest evidence cited for BBC editorial bias comes from a leaked internal memo authored by Michael Prescott and a cluster of independent studies and media analyses pointing to uneven co...
Allegations of BBC political bias during UK election coverage since 2019 are documented primarily as large volumes of complaints, party complaints, academic critiques of framing, and polemical comment...
Surveys and reporting in 2025 show , while traditional public outlets like NPR remain influential for topic depth and civic coverage. Evidence points to a split among young audiences between active se...
Rachel Maddow is consistently rated by media evaluators as left-leaning with mixed factual reliability; Media Bias/Fact Check labels her “Left Biased” and Ad Fontes places her show in the “skews left ...