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📆📰 The Justice Department has announced that there is no Jeffrey Epstein client list and that no further files from the ...
17/07/2025

📆📰 The Justice Department has announced that there is no Jeffrey Epstein client list and that no further files from the FBI investigation will be released. The announcement by Attorney General Pam Bondi sparked considerable debate from both sides of the political aisle. Our analysts took a closer look at media coverage following the announcement in our Topic of the Week.

The most minimally biased reporting from our content set came from The Wall Street Journal and Associated Press (AP). Both articles received a bias rating of “middle/balanced.” The WSJ gives details about the Epstein investigation, the conspiracy theories that have continued since his death while he was in prison, and previous DOJ comments about the case. The article was found to be a “mix of fact reporting and analysis.” The AP article delves even further into the FBI and DOJ investigations, dating back to 2019. Our team found this reporting to be “analysis.”

An article from Daily Beast was also rated by our team as “analysis,” with a “strong left” bias. Its reporting focuses on the reaction to Bondi’s announcement, noting that it’s rare to have an issue that unites both Democrats and “far-right MAGA activists” against the Trump administration, which is “under siege” for backtracking on its vow to release more information about the investigation. Analysts noted the “unfair” use of the photo that accompanies the article, which features Epstein and President Trump.

A video from the Adam Mockler YouTube channel also focuses on the MAGA reaction to Bondi’s announcement. Mockler accuses far-right influencers of “leveraging the fact that children were sexually abused … to get their little PR stunts” at a previous White House visit. He says he, therefore, does not pity them now as they become disillusioned with Trump, when “the party that claimed they were going to defeat the deep state very, very quickly became the deep state.” Analysts gave the video a reliability rating of “selective or incomplete/unfair persuasion,” with a “hyper-partisan left” bias.

The lowest-rated coverage from our content set came from a video on the Benny Johnson YouTube channel and an article from The Gateway Pundit. Johnson shares several social media posts from people calling for Bondi’s resignation and about FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s threats to resign because of the DOJ’s handling of the Epstein case. Johnson accuses the administration of covering up the Epstein files, the “exact opposite” of what they said they would do. Analysts found the video to contain “misleading” information and gave it a bias rating of “hyper-partisan right.”

Wayne Root, author of The Gateway Pundit article, states that the Epstein files announcement “threatens” the “best six months of any president ever.” He says that “MAGA is hanging in the balance,” and he is playing the role of Paul Revere to warn President Trump “about trouble brewing that threatens his presidency, legacy and the future of MAGA.” Root makes several claims that are unsupported by fact, leading analysts to place the article in the reliability category of “contains inaccurate/fabricated info.” It received a bias rating of “hyper-partisan right.”

🎧🎙 Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart, Podcasts, July 2025Data shows that more and more people listen to podcasts every year, an...
16/07/2025

🎧🎙 Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart, Podcasts, July 2025

Data shows that more and more people listen to podcasts every year, and the platform is especially popular among young adults. According to Podcast Statistics, 158 million people in the U.S. listen to podcasts every month. That’s 55% of the people in the U.S., up from 38% just three years ago.

Two-thirds of people in the U.S. between the ages of 12 and 34 listen to podcasts every month, according to Edison Research. The number is only slightly lower — 61% — for those ages 35-54. For those 55 and older, it’s 38%.

Podcasts are equally popular across the political spectrum, with 56% of Republicans and 53% of Democrats listening to podcasts.

Of course, podcasts cover a variety of topics — true crime, pop culture, comedy — and only a small portion of the 4.52 million podcasts worldwide focus on news. But of those millions of podcasts, it’s the top few thousand that account for the vast majority of listenership, and news and politics make up a strong percentage of those top podcasts.

Fifteen percen of people in the U.S. listen to a news podcast weekly, according to recent data. The increasing number of video podcasts has added to the platform’s popularity, with YouTube now leading Apple and Spotify as the place most people go to find podcasts.

Here at Ad Fontes, our analysts rate both audio and video podcasts every week. We’ve analyzed episodes from more than 900 news shows and have fully rated 800 of them. The July edition of the Podcast/Audio Media Bias Chart® released today includes 44 podcasts (see the full list here).

We choose a selection of podcasts to include on each month’s static media bias chart because it’s impossible to show all of them in one image. In order to make the logos as large and as readable as possible, we’ve magnified a portion of the chart and removed portions around the edges that contain no sources.

Sources in the green box of the chart are recommended by our team to provide minimally biased, fact-based information. On this month’s chart, 11 podcasts fall within the green box:

Bloomberg: Odd Lots
CBC News: The World This Hour
CBS News Roundup
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
Minnesota Today
NYT: The Ezra Klein Show
School of War
The Editors
The McCarthy Report
UNBIASED Politics
Unchained Podcast
More podcasts fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on charts in the future.

Six podcasts are included on the chart this month for the first time (two of these fall within the green box):

Bloomberg: Odd Lots
I Might Be Wrong
Keeping It Real Podcast with Jillian Michaels
Minnesota Today
Politics Politics Politics
Strict Scrutiny

📆📰Topic of the Week - Advanced, Week of July 6, 2025Alligator AlcatrazPresident Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Krist...
10/07/2025

📆📰Topic of the Week - Advanced, Week of July 6, 2025
Alligator Alcatraz
President Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited the new immigration detention center in South Florida, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” on Tuesday. Our analysts examined media coverage of the visit and the controversy surrounding the facility in our Topic of the Week.

Al Jazeera and CBS News provided the most balanced and fact-based coverage from our content set this week. Reporting from both websites was found to be a “mix of fact reporting and analysis” with a “middle/balanced” bias. The articles provide details of the president’s visit, as well as general information about the facility, which is situated deep within the Florida Everglades. They include comments from the officials on site as well as nearby protesters and critics of the facility.

An article from the CNN website and a video from The Bulwark YouTube channel were categorized as “opinion” with a “strong left” bias. In the video, host Tim Miller calls MAGA voters’ excitement about the facility “dark” and “cruel.” The video includes a clip of MSNBC’s Chris Jansing interviewing Miller, who agrees that “the threat of cruelty” is the point, because they want to scare immigrants so that they will self-deport. Miller calls the policy “un-American.”

The headline of the CNN article — “‘Alligator Alcatraz’ stirs dark echoes” — leans toward opinion rather than fact. The analysis report by Stephen Collinson calls the official visit there on Tuesday “the perfect backdrop for Trump’s stunt politics,” where he can “pose as a scowling strongman to please voters who hate political correctness.” He says that “photo-ops and choreographed controversies” are how Trump “builds and wields power and drowns everyone else out.”

Coverage from the right in our content set came from an article by RedState and a video from the Trish Regan YouTube channel. The article, with the headline “Raging Leftists Are Already Losing It Over 'Alligator Alcatraz' but the Replies Are Hilarious,” was categorized as “opinion” with a “hyper-partisan right” bias. The article, which includes an opinion policy statement with the byline, calls the detention facility “fantastic,” “awesome” and “one accidental open door away from being a Michael Crichton book.” It scoffs at people — mainly leftist white females (“the most dangerous predator of all predators”) — who are protesting and criticizing the facility.

The YouTube video includes clips of Democratic U.S. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jasmine Crockett speaking against the administration’s immigration policy. The host, Trish Regan, says “they make themselves look foolish” and accuses Democrats of “importing” citizens from other countries in order to allow them to vote in U.S. elections while giving them everything they want. Analysts noted instances of name-calling and promotion of conspiracies, categorizing the video as “selective or incomplete/unfair persuasion” with a “strong right” bias.

💻📰 A recent study conducted by Pew Research found that Americans who are Democrats are much more likely than Republicans...
09/07/2025

💻📰 A recent study conducted by Pew Research found that Americans who are Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to read and trust traditional national sources such as The New York Times and Associated Press (AP). In fact, there were few similarities among Americans with differing political allegiances when it came to which online/print news sources they regularly read and trusted.

According to the study, Democrats and Independents who lean left say they regularly get news from a variety of online sources: Associated Press (31%), BBC News (30%), The New York Times (29%), Washington Post (18%), USA Today (17%), The Guardian (13%), Politico (12%), Newsweek (10%) and The Atlantic (10%). Republicans and right-leaning Independents read BBC News (13%), Daily Wire (12%), AP (11%), USA Today (11%) and The New York Times (10%).

There were a few sources that ranked similarly across both sides of the political aisle; for example, Wall Street Journal (16% of Democrats read; 12% of Republicans), Forbes (10% of Democrats; 9% of Republicans) and the New York Post (8% of Democrats; 10% of Republicans). (The most popular sources among both parties were TV/broadcast news; we looked at Pew results for TV news and podcasts in previous blog posts, available here).

The political divide was even more evident when looking at which online/print sources Americans say they trust. Here’s a sample from the study:

BBC News: 52% of Democrats; 20% of Republicans
The New York Times: 49% of Democrats; 16% of Republicans
AP: 47% of Democrats; 16% of Republicans
Wall Street Journal: 37% of Democrats; 21% of Republicans
USA Today: 37% of Democrats; 18% of Republicans
Washington Post: 37% of Democrats; 14% of Republicans
The Daily Wire: 14% of Republicans; 3% of Democrats
Breitbart: 10% of Republicans; 1% of Democrats
Pew found that among the 30 news sources included in the study (online, TV, radio, podcast), Democrats tend to trust most of them overall, while Republicans tend to be more distrustful. At Ad Fontes, we believe that it’s important to rely on sources that provide fact-based and minimally biased information. We recommend sources in the green box of the Media Bias Chart® as ones you can trust.

Forty-one sources fall within the green box on the July edition of the Media Bias Chart® for websites/print that we’re releasing today (more sources fall within the green box; they will be included in future charts):

104.5 WOKV – Jacksonville
1440 Newsletter
404 Media
ABC News (website)
Ad Age
Air Mail
Alaska Beacon
Boston Herald
Cato Institute
CNBC (website)
Eco Watch
FOX 8 Cleveland WJW
Fox Business (website)
HuffPost
Investor’s Business Daily
MarketWatch
Newsweek
NPR (website)
Oil City News
Peru21
Pew Research Center
ProPublica
Puck News
Quillette
Reason
San Bernardino Sun
Semafor
Spectrum News 13 Central Florida
Straight Arrow News
The Advocate – Baton Rouge
The American Leader
The Appeal
The Bellingham Herald
The New York Times
The Press-Enterprise | Riverside County
The Reload
The War Horse
TheGrio
USAFacts
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
This chart features a total of 119 of the more than 2,670 websites our team has rated (see a list of all 119 sources on our website). Remember, we choose a selection of sources to include on each month’s chart because it’s impossible to put all of them in a single image.

Seven sources make their debut on this month’s chart:

104.5 WOKV – Jacksonville
Alaska Beacon
American Mind
Peru21
SheKnows
Spectrum News 13 Central Florida
Truthdig

📰📆 After the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear infrastructure, there was debate among public officials and experts about how m...
03/07/2025

📰📆 After the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear infrastructure, there was debate among public officials and experts about how much damage resulted from the strikes. President Trump said the U.S. had “completely and fully obliterated” Iran’s sites for uranium enrichment, which is necessary in order to build nuclear weapons. However, a classified Defense Intelligence Agency report said Iran’s nuclear capabilities were set back only a few months. Our analysts took a closer look at reporting about the U.S. strikes in Iran in our Topic of the Week.

The most balanced and fact-based coverage came from the U.S. News and World Report and ABC News websites. The U.S. News article gives details about the U.S. strikes and the conflicting reports about the damage caused. Scoring slightly lower, the ABC News article focuses on a Pentagon news briefing at which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other officials downplayed the DIA report and scolded reporters for focusing on it. Our analysts found both articles to be a “mix of fact reporting and analysis” with a “middle/balanced” bias.

The two videos included in our content set were found to be “opinion.” In a clip from Fox News’ “America Reports With John Roberts & Sandra Smith,” Roberts interviews Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, who praises Trump’s actions and criticizes “fake news” CNN who reported about the DIA assessment. Because the report only features comments that support Trump’s position, it was found to have a “strong right” bias.

Conversely, a clip from the MSNBC show “Deadline: White House” was found to have a “strong left” bias. The video features host Nicolle Wallace interviewing Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, who says the administration “got caught in a lie” and is now trying to cover it up with “righteous indignation.” Wallace’s opinion also is evident when she calls Trump’s remarks “incoherent” and questions Hegseth’s whereabouts and activities. The video was rated with a “strong left” bias.

Articles from Daily Kos and PJ Media were both found to be “selective or incomplete/unfair persuasion.” Reporting from PJ Media features only comments made by Trump and includes insults of the media by both Trump and the article’s author. The writer also speculates about the future of Iran in the closing of the article. The reporting was found to have a “strong right” bias.

The Daily Kos article focuses on whether Trump’s decision to bomb Iran was constitutional. The writer concludes that it was not and says the strikes “accelerated the U.S.’ dangerous slide into authoritarianism.” The article suggests that Trump acted in order to soothe his “ego” after being humiliated at the G7 meeting and at his military parade. Analysts found the article to have a “hyper-partisan left” bias, noting that the article was not labeled as “opinion” (it was submitted by a member of the Daily Kos “community” and was not subject to review by the staff).

A recent study that looked at Americans’ perceptions of 30 major news outlets found a distinct political gap when it cam...
30/06/2025

A recent study that looked at Americans’ perceptions of 30 major news outlets found a distinct political gap when it came to which TV/video sources they watched and most trusted.

A majority (57%) of Republicans and independents who lean Republican said they regularly get their news from the Fox News cable network, followed by ABC News (27%), NBC News (24%), CBS News (22%), CNN (20%) and Newsmax (15%).

For Democrats and left-leaning independents, nearly half (48%) regularly watch CNN, followed closely by NBC (47%) and ABC (46%). Other popular TV news sources were CBS (39%), MSNBC (33%) PBS (31%), and Fox News (18%).

In addition to differences in TV media consumption, Republicans and Democrats disagree on which news sources they trust and distrust. Here are a few examples:

Fox News: 56% of Republicans trust it; 64% of Democrats distrust it.
ABC News: 61% of Democrats trust it; 43% of Republicans distrust it.
NBC News: 60% of Democrats trust it; 44% of Republicans distrust it.
CNN: 58% of Democrats trust it; an equal number (58%) of Republicans distrust it.
CBS News: 56% of Democrats trust it; 40% of Republicans distrust it.
It’s easy to see that our polarized political environment is evident also in the media that is consumed and trusted by both sides. This is why we at Ad Fontes encourage all of us to break out of our information bubbles and consume media that are popular with the other side politically. Doing so can broaden our own viewpoints about the news, and it can help us when we have conversations with people who disagree with us on the issues.

You’ll see many of the network and cable TV shows included in the Pew Research study represented on the June Media Bias Chart® for TV/video that we’re releasing today. The 47 sources on the June chart are a small sample of the more than 760 TV/video sources that our team has fully rated.

It’s impossible to show hundreds of logos in one image — they overlap each other, and the result is a completely unreadable chart — so we choose a sample to feature each month. In order to make the logos as large and readable as possible, we have magnified a portion of the chart and removed portions around the edges that contain no sources.

Fifteen shows appear in the green box of the June chart. Remember: Sources recommended by our team to be minimally biased and to provide fact-based information fall within the green box. (More TV/video sources fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on charts in the future.)

ABC: Nightline
Bloomberg: The Pulse with Francine Lacqua
C-SPAN Live Stream
CNBC TV Network
CNN: State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash
CNN: The Arena with Kasie Hunt
EWTN: EWTN News Nightly
FOX 2 St. Louis KTVI: FOX 2 News at 6PM
Fox News: Special Report w/ Bret Baier
HBO: Surveilled
Merit Street Media: The News on Merit TV: Morning Edition
NBC News NOW: NBC News Daily With Kate Snow and Zinhle Essamuah
NewsNation: NewsNation Prime with Natasha Zouves
PBS: Frontline
Scripps News: Weekend
Seven sources appear on the Media Bias Chart® this month for the first time:

Bloomberg: The Pulse with Francine Lacqua
CNN: The Arena with Kasie Hunt
FOX 2 St. Louis KTVI: FOX 2 News at 6PM
MSNBC: From Russia With Lev
NBC News NOW: NBC News Daily With Kate Snow and Zinhle Essamuah
OAN: The Matt Gaetz Show
Real America’s Voice: The Steve Gruber Show

Following a series of military strikes between Israel and Iran, President Trump announced on June 19 that he would decid...
25/06/2025

Following a series of military strikes between Israel and Iran, President Trump announced on June 19 that he would decide “within the next two weeks” whether the U.S. would become further involved in the conflict by bombing key nuclear sites in Iran (Trump approved military action in Iran a few days later). Trump’s statement provoked reactions from across the political spectrum, with some agreeing that action was necessary and others fearing long-term U.S. involvement in another Mideast conflict. Our analysts examined media coverage of the debate in our Topic of the Week.

Analysts found the most thorough and balanced coverage from our content set in articles by The New York Times and India Today. Both articles received a “balanced” bias score. The NYT article goes into much detail about the Iran-Israel conflict and includes first-hand reporting from the region. It was given a reliability rating of “mix of fact reporting and analysis.” The India Times article is much shorter “simple fact reporting” that gives brief details of the events leading up to Trump’s announcement.

Reporting from The Daily Torch and the “Hannity” show on Fox News were found to have a “strong right” bias. The Daily Torch article details recent attacks by Israel and Iran and explains why Trump has the authority to decide on his own whether to involve the U.S. military. The article says the American people elected Trump to make decisions like this because they knew he would always put America’s interests first. The article was given a reliability rating of “analysis.”

On Fox News, host Sean Hannity interviews Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham about Trump’s commitment to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon. Graham says Trump is the “right guy at the right time” to handle this situation, calling Trump a “man of peace.” Because both Hannity and Graham praise Trump’s actions, our analysts placed the video in the “opinion” category of reliability.

From the left side of the political spectrum, analysts found an article from HuffPost and a video from Sen. Bernie Sanders to be “opinion” with a “hyper-partisan left” bias. In the video posted on Sanders’ YouTube channel, the senator warns against the U.S. becoming involved in Israel’s escalating war with Iran, which he says was “begun in violation of international law by the extremist Netanyahu government.” He notes that Israel’s strike against Iran went against the wishes of the U.S., which was exploring a diplomatic solution, and says expanded U.S. military support of Netanyahu would be a “catastrophic mistake.”

The bias of the HuffPost article is evident in its headline: “As The Threat Of War Looms, Americans Have A President And Staff Who Lie All The Time.” The article stresses that the American people can’t be confident they are getting accurate information from the “reality-game-show-host-turned-president Donald Trump” as he decides whether to involve the U.S. in another Mideast war. The article details various “lies” from Trump and members of his administration.

Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a press conference with Kristi Noem, secretary of Homeland Securi...
19/06/2025

Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a press conference with Kristi Noem, secretary of Homeland Security, last week. Reaction to the event was varied, with some believing Padilla was out of line and others believing he was denied the right to ask questions about immigration enforcement. Our team analyzed four articles and two videos about the incident in our Topic of the Week.

BBC provides the most fact-based coverage from our content set. The article details what happened during the news conference and includes reaction from both Republicans and Democrats. The reporting was found to be a “mix of fact reporting and analysis,” with a “middle/balanced” bias.

An article from the NBC News website scored lower. It included much more reaction from the left and right, and analysts noted that the descriptions of the incident and Noem’s statements following it could be disputed. The article received a reliability rating of “analysis” and a bias rating of “skews left.”

Looking at coverage from the right, an article from American Thinker states the incident was “a planned stunt, done solely for political theatrics.” The author states that Democrats are “enraged” and want all Americans to be enraged, predicting that “Democrats’ lackeys who are so eager to engage in violence” will be inspired by Padilla to “take things up a notch.” Our analysts considered the article to be “opinion,” with a “strong right” bias.

Scoring slightly lower is a video from the Decoy Voice YouTube channel that is titled, “He Did This To Himself.” The host mocks “somber” Padilla for sharing his “sob story,” as well as mocking other Democrats who responded. Analysts noted several insults and name calling in the video, as well as some unsubstantiated conspiratorial claims. The video was found to be “selective or incomplete,” with a “strong right” bias.

From the left, coverage from The Lincoln Project YouTube channel and Esquire received almost identical scores in the “selective or incomplete/unfair persuasion” category of reliability and “hyper-partisan left” section of bias.

The video headline calls the incident “OUTRAGEOUS” and says Padilla was “attacked.” The host calls the officers that removed Padilla from the press conference “thugs” and says the event is “more authoritarian theater.” Analysts found several incidents of threats, insults and mischaracterizations about Republicans in the video.

Esquire calls Noem a “puppy-murdering hack whose political career outside of MAGA World was as dead as Custer” and “dumbass in a ballcap.” Her security officers are called “thugs” and “goons.” The article also insults Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and other Republicans who defend Noem. Analysts noted several examples of name calling and ad hominem attacks throughout the article.

A new Pew Research Center survey asked Americans their opinion on 30 major media sources, and the answers were divided a...
16/06/2025

A new Pew Research Center survey asked Americans their opinion on 30 major media sources, and the answers were divided along political lines. A noteworthy statistic from the survey is that one of the most influential news sources among Republicans is a podcast: The Joe Rogan Experience.

Twenty-two percent of Republicans surveyed said they regularly get their news from the Rogan show; 2 percent of Democrats said the same. Thirty-one percent of Republicans said they trusted it as a source of news (second only to Fox News); 3 percent of Democrats agreed.

The Joe Rogan Experience was the only podcast with a large enough audience to be included in the Pew survey (it’s the most watched podcast on both YouTube and Spotify and was No. 4 on Apple Podcasts, according to the New York Times). But the show’s strong results in the survey provide evidence of the growing influence of podcasts as a news source.

Here at Ad Fontes, our analysts have been listening to and rating podcasts for years. In fact, we’ve analyzed episodes from more than 900 shows and have fully rated 800 of them. The June edition of the Podcast/Audio Media Bias Chart® released today includes 47 podcasts (see the full list here). You’ll find The Joe Rogan Experience near the bottom middle of the chart. To understand why it’s rated where it is, please see this video.

We choose a selection of podcasts to include on each month’s static media bias chart because it’s impossible to show all of them in one image. In order to make the logos as large and as readable as possible, we have magnified a portion of the chart and removed portions around the edges that contain no sources.

Sources in the green box of the chart are recommended by our team to provide minimally biased, fact-based information. On this month’s chart, 11 podcasts fall within the green box:

CBC News: The World This Hour
CBS News Roundup
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
NYT: The Ezra Klein Show
School of War
StarTalk Radio
The McCarthy Report
The World and Everything In It
UNBIASED Politics
Unchained Podcast
UnCommon Law
More podcasts fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on charts in the future.

Seven podcasts are included on the chart this month for the first time (three of these fall within the green box):

Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams
Congressional Dish
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
School of War
The Eric Metaxas Show
The Sage Steele Show
Unchained Podcast

The relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk disintegrated over the past week after Musk ended his time with t...
13/06/2025

The relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk disintegrated over the past week after Musk ended his time with the Department of Government Efficiency. Musk’s public criticism of Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” sparked a series of insults and threats between the two on their respective social media platforms (X and Truth Social). Our analysts looked at media coverage about the dispute in our Topic of the Week.

CBS News provided the most reliable and unbiased coverage from our content set. In an article on the website, CBS takes a look at Trump and Musk’s relationship starting in 2016. Our analysts classified the article as a “mix of fact reporting and analysis” with a “middle/balanced” bias.

Scoring only slightly lower was an article from the CNBC website. CNBC focuses on business news, so it’s no surprise that its reporting looks at how the Trump-Musk “spat” has negatively affected the profits of Musk’s company, Tesla. Analysts found the reporting to be “balanced” and placed it on the line between “analysis” and “mix of fact reporting and analysis.”

Looking at coverage from the right, our team analyzed an article from Gateway Pundit and a video from the Benny Johnson YouTube channel. Both were given a “skews right” bias rating and a reliability rating of “opinion.”

Johnson says the Trump-Musk feud is “cracking the MAGA movement to its core.” He describes Musk posting a “really big bomb” on X, saying that Trump is mentioned in the Epstein files and that’s why they haven’t been released. However, Johnson defends Trump, stating that if he were in the files, the Democrats would’ve already released them. He says he’s angry about the feud because Trump and Musk “both took proverbial bullets for the country” and love America.

The Gateway Pundit article calls Musk’s Epstein allegation a “low blow that will be hard to walk back.” However, Musk later agreed on X that making peace with Trump would be good for the country, a development that the article author Jim Hoft calls a “glimmer of hope.”

The lowest-rated coverage from our content set came from the left. In an article about the Trump-Musk feud from The Nation, the author says he’s “rooting for each of them to destroy the other.” Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is described as “one-stop shopping for mean, nasty people” and calls Trump a “gangster-president” and Musk an “ungrateful, ketamine-addled, Sieg Heil-saluting brat.”

In a video on the I’ve Had It (IHIP News) YouTube channel, the hosts scoff at the suggestion that Trump is actually working with Musk to tank his own “big, beautiful bill” in a “4D chess move,” saying that Trump is “intellectually incompetent” and can barely play checkers, let alone chess. They say Musk is treating Trump the way Trump usually treats people, and it’s “delicious.” Our analysts noted a number of insults and ad hominem attacks by the hosts; for example, they call Trump the “biggest yak mouth, loudmouth, bridge troll in the United States of America” and Elon a “conman dipsh*t.”

Both the video and the article were found to be “selective or incomplete/unfair persuasion” with a “hyper-partisan left” bias.

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