The Joke that MediaBiasFactCheck Represents to Rational Thinking

[Trumpetman]

There is no greater joke that has been perpetuated among the libtards out there than the website mediabiasfactcheck.com

First they "vet" fact checks. Why don't they do many fact checks themselves? It's because it's not a real large operations. It's largely one man, a couple of his volunteer friends and lots of big words trying to make them sound like a big credible organization.

So you read with clarity and you see, it's a "fact check" website that doesn't do fact checks but "vets" them aka says they are good or bad.

That is largely all the website does. People keep citing it for fact checking but what they largely do is label media souces with biases.

How do I know this? Well they tell you on their own website.

About

We are proud to be 100% Independent and 100% Human-Driven About Media Bias / Fact Check Founded in 2015, Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an independent

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Dave Van Zandt is the founder and primary editor for sources. He is assisted by a collective of volunteers and paid contractors who provide research for many sources listed on these pages. Finally, MBFC also provides occasional fact-checks and original articles on media bias and publishes daily curated fact-checks from around the world.

It's there plain as day. He is the source and he doesn't do many fact checks. He curates fact checks.

So he's the primary editor so what is his background? He tells you and do so with lots of verbosity.

Dave Van Zandt is a registered Non-Affiliated voter who values evidence-based reporting. Though not a journalist, Dave has maintained a lifelong interest in politics and media bias. He originally pursued a Communications degree in college before ultimately earning a degree in Physiology. Since then, he has worked in the healthcare industry (Occupational Rehabilitation) while continuing to study media, language, and bias independently.

Dave’s background in science, combined with a passion for political observation and an early ability to recognize biased narratives, gave him the foundation to approach media analysis critically and methodically. Over the past 20 years, he has studied media bias and linguistics and has applied the scientific method to create a structured, evidence-based methodology for assessing media bias and factual reporting.

It's there clear as day. He has no training. He is a physical therapist. He cites that the foundation to what he does is.... passion. There's nothing else.

Funding

Media Bias Fact Check is 100% independent, relying only on low monthly membership fees and small donations from individuals. We are the only bias rater

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Media Bias Fact Check has typical expenses for a medium-sized website that generates 1 to 5+ million page views per month. Although MBFC is a sole proprietorship that relies on volunteers, we also compensate for work with cash gifts. These gifts will vary based on the amount of work done and our flow of revenue. MBFC also operates a home office with Dave Van Zandt, the editor and owner, investing 60-80 hours per week on the website’s operation.

This is basically one guy at home putting his entire life into one website.

Methodology

Objective Starting in 2025, we have a new methodology that aims to assess media outlets' ideological bias and factual reliability systematically. It uses

mediabiasfactcheck.com

Bias is inherently subjective, and while no universally accepted scientific formula exists to measure it, our methodology uses objective indicators to approximate and represent bias. Each evaluated source is placed on a bias scale, visually represented by a yellow dot, to indicate its position. This is complemented by a “Detailed Report” that explains the source’s characteristics and the reasoning behind its bias rating.

A man who has no training sits at home in his spare bedroom after treating his physical therapy patients. He uses labels that sound like they are academic but are not. His "bias scale" is an arrow". His "objective indicator" is a yellow dot. The yellow dot on the arrow are "indicators to approximate and represent bias." He notes bias is SUBJECTIVE and in this case it is his opinion. He write lots of words in a "detailed report" to explain his subjective opinion and why he put the yellow dot where he did on the arrow. He literally made up his entire "methodology" as a rank amateur.

See below...

 

[Trumpetman]

Bias Scoring System

Scoring Mechanism

The placement of a source on the Left-Right Bias Scale is determined by a weighted composite score derived from four categories: Economic System (35%), Social Progressive Liberalism vs. Traditional Social Conservatism (35%), Straight News Reporting Balance (15%), and Editorial Bias (15%). Scores are on a scale of -10 to +10, and the weighted average determines the overall bias score.

Underneath he goes into more detail about all his made up methodology where he has several categories where he puts dots on arrows. He then adds up all the dots on all the arrows and averages.

No matter what, this is all made up. The man has no training. He created a scale. He puts dots on the scale using his opinions. He averages the scale and presents that average as "science" and spends 60-80 hours a week sitting in his little home office typing up lots of words in "detailed reports" explaining why his opinion should be considered a fact.

Don't buy the lie. It's been made plain as day using the actual primary source material from the website itself. Dave Van Zandt to his credit doesn't lie. He just obfuscates and counts on the low IQ of his supporters and enablers to carry the day.

The fact remains. He vets fact checks. He methodology is self-created by an uneducated, unqualified, untrained physical therapist who sits in his spare bedroom office 60-80 hours a week typing lots of "detailed reports" to justify his yellow dots on his arrows.

Educate yourself and stop buying the lies. Get a clue. Realize that anyone who cites this website proves they are idiots who can't read but like the mental laziness of looking at little dots on arrows. The website works because it make the mentally lazy feel mentally smart.

Do better.

 

[poppopfox]

"A man who has no training" sits in the White House. What has training got to do with it?

 

[VySky]

There is no greater joke that has been perpetuated among the libtards out there than the website mediabiasfactcheck.com

First they "vet" fact checks. Why don't they do many fact checks themselves? It's because it's not a real large operations. It's largely one man, a couple of his volunteer friends and lots of big words trying to make them sound like a big credible organization.

So you read with clarity and you see, it's a "fact check" website that doesn't do fact checks but "vets" them aka says they are good or bad.

That is largely all the website does. People keep citing it for fact checking but what they largely do is label media souces with biases.

How do I know this? Well they tell you on their own website.

About

We are proud to be 100% Independent and 100% Human-Driven About Media Bias / Fact Check Founded in 2015, Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an independent

mediabiasfactcheck.com

It's there plain as day. He is the source and he doesn't do many fact checks. He curates fact checks.

So he's the primary editor so what is his background? He tells you and do so with lots of verbosity.



It's there clear as day. He has no training. He is a physical therapist. He cites that the foundation to what he does is.... passion. There's nothing else.

Funding

Media Bias Fact Check is 100% independent, relying only on low monthly membership fees and small donations from individuals. We are the only bias rater

mediabiasfactcheck.com

This is basically one guy at home putting his entire life into one website.

Methodology

Objective Starting in 2025, we have a new methodology that aims to assess media outlets' ideological bias and factual reliability systematically. It uses

mediabiasfactcheck.com

A man who has no training sits at home in his spare bedroom after treating his physical therapy patients. He uses labels that sound like they are academic but are not. His "bias scale" is an arrow". His "objective indicator" is a yellow dot. The yellow dot on the arrow are "indicators to approximate and represent bias." He notes bias is SUBJECTIVE and in this case it is his opinion. He write lots of words in a "detailed report" to explain his subjective opinion and why he put the yellow dot where he did on the arrow. He literally made up his entire "methodology" as a rank amateur.

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There are a couple of users that follow me around and drop that bogus website in my threads thinking somehow it dismisses the subject at hand. Sad......

 

[Trumpetman]

There are a couple of users that follow me around and drop that bogus website in my threads thinking somehow it dismisses the subject at hand. Sad......

If only they realized how foolish it makes them look when they drop those links and references.

 

[VySky]

If only they realized how foolish it makes them look when they drop those links and references.

I really don’t think they care about looking foolish. It’s who they are.

 

[The Brad Dad]

There are a couple of users that follow me around and drop that bogus website in my threads thinking somehow it dismisses the subject at hand. Sad......

You use sources such as zero hedge and epoch times. Those are essentially coloring books for maga.

 

[BitterPill]

There is no greater joke that has been perpetuated among the libtards out there than the website mediabiasfactcheck.com

First they "vet" fact checks. Why don't they do many fact checks themselves? It's because it's not a real large operations. It's largely one man, a couple of his volunteer friends and lots of big words trying to make them sound like a big credible organization.

So you read with clarity and you see, it's a "fact check" website that doesn't do fact checks but "vets" them aka says they are good or bad.

That is largely all the website does. People keep citing it for fact checking but what they largely do is label media souces with biases.

How do I know this? Well they tell you on their own website.

About

We are proud to be 100% Independent and 100% Human-Driven About Media Bias / Fact Check Founded in 2015, Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an independent

mediabiasfactcheck.com

It's there plain as day. He is the source and he doesn't do many fact checks. He curates fact checks.

So he's the primary editor so what is his background? He tells you and do so with lots of verbosity.



It's there clear as day. He has no training. He is a physical therapist. He cites that the foundation to what he does is.... passion. There's nothing else.

Funding

Media Bias Fact Check is 100% independent, relying only on low monthly membership fees and small donations from individuals. We are the only bias rater

mediabiasfactcheck.com

This is basically one guy at home putting his entire life into one website.

Methodology

Objective Starting in 2025, we have a new methodology that aims to assess media outlets' ideological bias and factual reliability systematically. It uses

mediabiasfactcheck.com

A man who has no training sits at home in his spare bedroom after treating his physical therapy patients. He uses labels that sound like they are academic but are not. His "bias scale" is an arrow". His "objective indicator" is a yellow dot. The yellow dot on the arrow are "indicators to approximate and represent bias." He notes bias is SUBJECTIVE and in this case it is his opinion. He write lots of words in a "detailed report" to explain his subjective opinion and why he put the yellow dot where he did on the arrow. He literally made up his entire "methodology" as a rank amateur.

See below...

While calling me a rank amatuer would be a significant upgrade, I've found through careful observation that Newsmax is the most informative and unbiased media organ in the US as well as completely loyal to Trump and MAGA, and while the 'E' word occasionally surfaces, I don't ever click on those links to preserve my sanity, but when I come to DP, the constant mention of the 'E' word drives me crazy.

Also, were you once known as Trumpetman, or have I officially gone insane?

MAGA.

 

[Hari Seldon]

There are a couple of users that follow me around and drop that bogus website in my threads thinking somehow it dismisses the subject at hand. Sad......

What does crap zero have to say?

 

[Hari Seldon]

 

[NOLA Dude]

There is no greater joke that has been perpetuated among the libtards out there than the website mediabiasfactcheck.com

First they "vet" fact checks. Why don't they do many fact checks themselves? It's because it's not a real large operations. It's largely one man, a couple of his volunteer friends and lots of big words trying to make them sound like a big credible organization.

So you read with clarity and you see, it's a "fact check" website that doesn't do fact checks but "vets" them aka says they are good or bad.

That is largely all the website does. People keep citing it for fact checking but what they largely do is label media souces with biases.

How do I know this? Well they tell you on their own website.

About

We are proud to be 100% Independent and 100% Human-Driven About Media Bias / Fact Check Founded in 2015, Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an independent

mediabiasfactcheck.com

It's there plain as day. He is the source and he doesn't do many fact checks. He curates fact checks.

So he's the primary editor so what is his background? He tells you and do so with lots of verbosity.



It's there clear as day. He has no training. He is a physical therapist. He cites that the foundation to what he does is.... passion. There's nothing else.

Funding

Media Bias Fact Check is 100% independent, relying only on low monthly membership fees and small donations from individuals. We are the only bias rater

mediabiasfactcheck.com

This is basically one guy at home putting his entire life into one website.

Methodology

Objective Starting in 2025, we have a new methodology that aims to assess media outlets' ideological bias and factual reliability systematically. It uses

mediabiasfactcheck.com

A man who has no training sits at home in his spare bedroom after treating his physical therapy patients. He uses labels that sound like they are academic but are not. His "bias scale" is an arrow". His "objective indicator" is a yellow dot. The yellow dot on the arrow are "indicators to approximate and represent bias." He notes bias is SUBJECTIVE and in this case it is his opinion. He write lots of words in a "detailed report" to explain his subjective opinion and why he put the yellow dot where he did on the arrow. He literally made up his entire "methodology" as a rank amateur.

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Excellent post and thread. Websites that claim to document bias, fact checkers and misinformation experts are all made up profession.

There isn't any degree or training that would enable someone to be an authority on bias, facts or misinformation.

It's part of the censorship apparatus that largely arose only in response to Trump.

 

[NOLA Dude]

There are a couple of users that follow me around and drop that bogus website in my threads thinking somehow it dismisses the subject at hand. Sad......

They use it as a crutch to try to discredit something they are unable to do themselves.

 

[NOLA Dude]

If only they realized how foolish it makes them look when they drop those links and references.

Exactly. I automatically think thats something a teenager would do. An adult?

 

[BirdinHand]

What astounds me is how many people can’t see the glaring bias in the media they consume just from the tone and verbiage used in the media.

Not really that a person has taken the time to point these obvious things out on a website

But Americans are pretty stupid - look who we elected

 

[Demon]

While calling me a rank amatuer would be an upgrade, I've found through careful observation that Newsmax is the most informative and unbiased media organ in the US as well as completely loyal to Trump and MAGA, and while the 'E' word occasionally surfaces, I don't ever click on those links to preserve my sanity, but when I come to DP, the constant mention of the 'E' word drives me crazy.

Also, were you once known as Trumpetman, or have I officially gone insane?

MAGA.

And Trumptman.

 

[dmpi]

My view is that it's always up to the reader to do their own 'fact checking'. And many subjects are controversial and don't have right or wrong answers... but that don't stop the fact-checker.

 

[The Brad Dad]

Excellent post and thread. Websites that claim to document bias, fact checkers and misinformation experts are all made up profession.

There isn't any degree or training that would enable someone to be an authority on bias, facts or misinformation.

It's part of the censorship apparatus that largely arose only in response to Trump.

Fact checking isn't censorship. Trump trying to kill news stories is censorship.

 

[Airyaman]

There is no greater joke that has been perpetuated among the libtards out there than the website mediabiasfactcheck.com

First they "vet" fact checks. Why don't they do many fact checks themselves? It's because it's not a real large operations. It's largely one man, a couple of his volunteer friends and lots of big words trying to make them sound like a big credible organization.

So you read with clarity and you see, it's a "fact check" website that doesn't do fact checks but "vets" them aka says they are good or bad.

That is largely all the website does. People keep citing it for fact checking but what they largely do is label media souces with biases.

How do I know this? Well they tell you on their own website.

About

We are proud to be 100% Independent and 100% Human-Driven About Media Bias / Fact Check Founded in 2015, Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an independent

mediabiasfactcheck.com

It's there plain as day. He is the source and he doesn't do many fact checks. He curates fact checks.

So he's the primary editor so what is his background? He tells you and do so with lots of verbosity.



It's there clear as day. He has no training. He is a physical therapist. He cites that the foundation to what he does is.... passion. There's nothing else.

Funding

Media Bias Fact Check is 100% independent, relying only on low monthly membership fees and small donations from individuals. We are the only bias rater

mediabiasfactcheck.com

This is basically one guy at home putting his entire life into one website.

Methodology

Objective Starting in 2025, we have a new methodology that aims to assess media outlets' ideological bias and factual reliability systematically. It uses

mediabiasfactcheck.com

A man who has no training sits at home in his spare bedroom after treating his physical therapy patients. He uses labels that sound like they are academic but are not. His "bias scale" is an arrow". His "objective indicator" is a yellow dot. The yellow dot on the arrow are "indicators to approximate and represent bias." He notes bias is SUBJECTIVE and in this case it is his opinion. He write lots of words in a "detailed report" to explain his subjective opinion and why he put the yellow dot where he did on the arrow. He literally made up his entire "methodology" as a rank amateur.

See below...

I don't need that site to recognize that ZeroHedge, Gateway Pundit, Conservative Treehouse, Washington Times, the Federalist, etc. are garbage sources.

But it's nice that there exists a site that also concludes they are garbage.

Stop using garbage sources and no one has use that site.

 

[Sven Karma]

And Trumptman.

Guess he has to change his name quite often on account of being repeatedly declared intellectually bankrupt.

 

[poppopfox]

Excellent post and thread. Websites that claim to document bias, fact checkers and misinformation experts are all made up profession.

There isn't any degree or training that would enable someone to be an authority on bias, facts or misinformation.

Sorry, but you're wrong. Communications is an art that needs to be studied so that one is not the pawn of those that employ rhetoric for nefarious ends, One of my BA's is in that field, the other is in Education. An authority on rhetoric is an authority on bias.

It's part of the censorship apparatus that largely arose only in response to Trump.

 

[Trumpetman]

You use sources such as zero hedge and epoch times. Those are essentially coloring books for maga.

They are garbage according to the physical therapists who spends 60 hours a week in his spare bedroom telling you that they so.

While calling me a rank amatuer would be a significant upgrade, I've found through careful observation that Newsmax is the most informative and unbiased media organ in the US as well as completely loyal to Trump and MAGA, and while the 'E' word occasionally surfaces, I don't ever click on those links to preserve my sanity, but when I come to DP, the constant mention of the 'E' word drives me crazy.

Also, were you once known as Trumpetman, or have I officially gone insane?

MAGA.

I don't worry much about the source. In this day and age we are blessed enough to primary source material on lots of actual news. We see the video of the people there first hand. It is often the news organizations and government who come out and try to gaslight us.

I am still trumptman, Trumpetman and ConditionalStatement. The forum software let's you change it regularly and I'm having fun with it. My latest handle is the most fun so far.

What astounds me is how many people can’t see the glaring bias in the media they consume just from the tone and verbiage used in the media.

Not really that a person has taken the time to point these obvious things out on a website

But Americans are pretty stupid - look who we elected

The thing is people aren't pointing to that website because people agree with them. They point to it to be authoritative when those people DISAGREE with them. They point at it to say "see the experts agree with me!"

Except since they aren't experts they don't realize they aren't pointing at any expertise. They're pointing at a clown with a spare bedroom and a lot of time on his hands.

And Trumptman.

It might change back to that. It might change again. I use all features of the board. Don't you?

I don't need that site to recognize that ZeroHedge, Gateway Pundit, Conservative Treehouse, Washington Times, the Federalist, etc. are garbage sources.

But it's nice that there exists a site that also concludes they are garbage.

Stop using garbage sources and no one has use that site.

It's nice that the physical therapist with no life and a spare bedroom where he spends 60-80 hours a week typing agrees with you?

Guess he has to change his name quite often on account of being repeatedly declared intellectually bankrupt.

My next handle might have to include Karma in it just to have fun and make a point.

Sorry, but you're wrong. Communications is an art that needs to be studied so that one is not the pawn of those that employ rhetoric for nefarious ends, One of my BA's is in that field, the other is in Education. An authority on rhetoric is an authority on bias.

Nice flourishes. Thankfully you called it art and not science.

 

[Demon]

It might change back to that. It might change again. I use all features of the board. Don't you?

No. I've never seen a reason to change my name once, let alone twice.

 

[Airyaman]

It's nice that the physical therapist with no life and a spare bedroom where he spends 60-80 hours a week typing agrees with you?

What are your credentials?

 

[NOLA Dude]

Sorry, but you're wrong. Communications is an art that needs to be studied so that one is not the pawn of those that employ rhetoric for nefarious ends, One of my BA's is in that field, the other is in Education. An authority on rhetoric is an authority on bias.

Nobody is an authority on bias considering we all have our own biases.

 

[Redress]

There is no greater joke that has been perpetuated among the libtards out there than the website mediabiasfactcheck.com

First they "vet" fact checks. Why don't they do many fact checks themselves? It's because it's not a real large operations. It's largely one man, a couple of his volunteer friends and lots of big words trying to make them sound like a big credible organization.

So you read with clarity and you see, it's a "fact check" website that doesn't do fact checks but "vets" them aka says they are good or bad.

That is largely all the website does. People keep citing it for fact checking but what they largely do is label media souces with biases.

How do I know this? Well they tell you on their own website.

About

We are proud to be 100% Independent and 100% Human-Driven About Media Bias / Fact Check Founded in 2015, Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an independent

mediabiasfactcheck.com

It's there plain as day. He is the source and he doesn't do many fact checks. He curates fact checks.

So he's the primary editor so what is his background? He tells you and do so with lots of verbosity.



It's there clear as day. He has no training. He is a physical therapist. He cites that the foundation to what he does is.... passion. There's nothing else.

Funding

Media Bias Fact Check is 100% independent, relying only on low monthly membership fees and small donations from individuals. We are the only bias rater

mediabiasfactcheck.com

This is basically one guy at home putting his entire life into one website.

Methodology

Objective Starting in 2025, we have a new methodology that aims to assess media outlets' ideological bias and factual reliability systematically. It uses

mediabiasfactcheck.com

A man who has no training sits at home in his spare bedroom after treating his physical therapy patients. He uses labels that sound like they are academic but are not. His "bias scale" is an arrow". His "objective indicator" is a yellow dot. The yellow dot on the arrow are "indicators to approximate and represent bias." He notes bias is SUBJECTIVE and in this case it is his opinion. He write lots of words in a "detailed report" to explain his subjective opinion and why he put the yellow dot where he did on the arrow. He literally made up his entire "methodology" as a rank amateur.

See below...

Do you always get triggered by everything that disagrees with you?