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🎧🎙Podcast Chart, Nov 2025 Today we’re releasing the November edition of the Media Bias Chart® for podcasts. It contains ...
20/11/2025

🎧🎙Podcast Chart, Nov 2025
Today we’re releasing the November edition of the Media Bias Chart® for podcasts. It contains a representative sample of all of the shows our analysts have rated.

Sometimes when we release our podcast chart, we hear from people questioning the placement of shows like the Fox News Rundown podcast. You’ll see it on this chart near the top middle. This is a good time to remind people that this podcast is different than the Fox News website, which is different than the Fox News TV Network, which has several shows that fall across the bias and reliability spectrum on the Media Bias Chart®.

Our team does not give a particular show certain bias and reliability scores because of who owns it. Our analysts conduct robust content analysis of particular articles and episodes and rate the content itself. So, the bias and reliability of Fox News podcasts and TV shows will vary. This is also true for CNN and MS NOW/MSNBC and other media companies; we wrote more about that here (see blog for link).

The chart below (see comments for chart) shows a sample of Fox News properties and their placement on the Media Bias Chart®. You’ll find three podcasts: Fox News Rundown, FOX Across America with Jimmy Failla and Fox News Hourly Update. You’ll also find the Fox News website (FoxNews.com) and the Fox News TV Network overall (to see where some individual Fox News TV programs fall, check out the November TV/video chart that will be released next week).

Fox News Rundown publishes 20- to 30-minute episodes that report on two or three top stories of the day and then end with a commentary segment. The Fox News Hourly Update, which also appears in the top middle of the above chart, provides short updates on the top news every hour throughout the day. A majority of the reporting on each show focuses on facts rather than opinion, and it’s opinion content that often lowers bias and reliability scores for other Fox News programs.

Our analysts have rated randomly selected episodes from the Fox News Rundown podcast and have found it to be minimally biased and reliable. The same is true for NPR News Now, which regularly publishes five-minute episodes highlighting the top news of the day. That’s why both shows fall within the green box on the November edition of the Media Bias Chart® for Podcasts/Audio. Sources in the green box of the chart have been found by our team to consistently provide minimally biased, fact-based information.

In addition to Fox News Rundown and NPR News Now, 9 podcasts fall within the green box on the November edition:
Autocracy in America
Banished with Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder
Conversations with Bill Kristol
Just Asking Questions
NYT: The Ezra Klein Show
The Editors
The New Yorker Radio Hour
This Morning with Gordon Deal
UNBIASED Politics
More podcasts fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on charts in the future.

The November edition of the Podcast/Audio Media Bias Chart® includes 45 podcasts (see a list of those 45 here). In all, we’ve rated more than 850 podcasts, and we choose only a few dozen 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.

Eight podcasts are included on the chart this month for the first time (three of these fall within the green box):
Autocracy in America
Banished with Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder
Conversations with Bill Kristol
Majority 54 with Jason Kander and Ravi Gupta
Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova
The Glenn Show – Glenn Loury
The Mike Gallagher Show
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

📆📰 Zohran Mamdani was elected the next mayor of New York City last week. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, defeated forme...
15/11/2025

📆📰 Zohran Mamdani was elected the next mayor of New York City last week. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, defeated former Mayor Andrew Cuomo, who ran as an independent, and Curtis Silwa, the Republican candidate, in an election with high voter turnout. Our analysts rated media coverage of Mamdani’s win in our Topic of the Week.

The most fact-based and minimally biased coverage from our content set came from an article on the ABC News website. The article focuses on Mamdani’s rise in popularity to “make history” and secure the mayoral win, noting that he will be the city’s first Muslim, African-born and South Asian mayor. At 34, he’s also the second youngest mayor in the city’s history, the first immigrant mayor since 1974 and the first bearded mayor since 1913. Analysts placed the article in the “middle/balanced” category of bias and the “mix of fact reporting and analysis” category of reliability.

Scoring slightly lower was an article from Newsweek. The reporting focuses on the election itself, including poll numbers, voter tallies and the backgrounds of Mamdani and his top challenger, Cuomo. Like the article from ABC, analysts found the article to be a “mix of fact reporting and analysis.” But it received a “skews left” bias rating because it included quotes about Mamdani’s win only from prominent Democrats and Mamdani supporters.

Analysts rated an article from The New Yorker as “analysis” with a “hyper-partisan left” bias. The lengthy story, titled “The Mamdani Era Begins,” goes back years to look at Mamdani’s career and rise to popularity. Analysts found the reporting to be complete but clearly in support of Mamdani and his platform, which led to its lower bias rating.

The two videos analyzed by our team received similar reliability scores, in the category of “opinion,” but converse bias scores. On the Fox Business show “Mornings with Maria Bartiromo,” the results of the election are presented, and then a panel (Bartiromo, Adam Johnson and Emily Sturge) discusses Mamdani’s win and the promises he made to voters. The panel expresses skepticism that he has the authority to implement the policies he promised and characterizes him as “anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-police.” The video received a bias rating of “hyper-partisan right.”

On The Breakfast Club, host Charlamagne the God gives his “Donkey of the Day” to CNN’s Van Jones for calling Mamdani’s victory speech “divisive.” The host disagrees, applauding the speech and congratulating Mamdani for “challenging capitalism and authoritarianism strategy.” He says Mamdani was rightly celebrating his win, and Jones should not criticize that. “The language of politics is dead, and Donald Trump killed it,” he declares. Panelist Mehdi Hasan also weighs in, agreeing that the speech by Mamdani, whom he credits for creating a “multiracial, multicultural, multi-income coalition,” is not divisive. Analysts gave the video a bias rating of “hyper-partisan left.”

The lowest-rated coverage from our content set came from an article by American Thinker. The tone of the article is evident in the headline, “Zohran the Barbarian Takes New York,” and in the lead, “The Islamification of the West is happening everywhere.” The writer, J.B. Shurk, calls Mamdani a “terrorist-sympathizing communist” and declares that anyone who experienced the 9/11 attacks “should feel queasy about what just happened in New York.” He makes numerous insults about Muslims and dire predictions about the West because of the election of Mamdani in New York City and Sadiq Khan (whom he calls “Genghis Khan”) in London. Analysts found the reporting to be full of hyperbole, insults and unfounded claims, rating it as “containing inaccurate info” with a “most extreme right” bias.

💻📰 Web/Print Chart, Nov 2025A new study from Pew Research Center found that Americans’ trust in information from both na...
13/11/2025

💻📰 Web/Print Chart, Nov 2025
A new study from Pew Research Center found that Americans’ trust in information from both national and local news organizations has declined. This trend is true across all age groups and in both major political parties.

In the survey, 56% of adults in the U.S. said they have a lot or some trust in the information they get from national news organizations — that’s down 11 percentage points since March and 20 points since 2016. More Americans — 70% — trust their local news organizations, but that’s still a drop from March (80%) and from 2016 (82%). (The study found a decline in trust in information from social media sites, as well).

With so many sources of information in today’s media landscape, we at Ad Fontes Media understand that it can be overwhelming to know whom to trust. That’s why we do what we do.

Our mission is to rate all the news for bias reliability. That means local and midsize newspapers, Substack publications, national and international websites, and wire services. It also means TV news programs, YouTube videos, podcasts and news documentaries. Our team of trained analysts has rated them all. We encourage everyone to use our ratings as a guide when looking for fact-based and minimally biased content.

On the Media Bias Chart®, the sources at the top have been rated by our team to provide fact-based reporting. Sources in the middle contain analysis and opinion content. The ones at the bottom have been rated as incomplete, unfair, misleading or inaccurate.

The horizontal axis of the chart represents bias. News sources in the left-right middle of the chart have been rated as middle/balanced. As you move to the left of center, sources are found to have a bias of “skews left” to “most extreme left” toward the edge of the chart. Conversely, sources on the right range from “skews right” to “most extreme right” in political bias.

Sources in the green box (top middle) of the chart have been rated by our team to be minimally biased and to provide fact-based information.

It’s important to remember that there are sources of information that you can trust, but you’ll have to seek them out. One way to do that is to search for sources on the Interactive Media Bias Chart® on our website or on our mobile app for Android or Apple. You can also watch for the monthly static editions of our chart on social media.

Start with the November edition of the Media Bias Chart® for web/print sources that we’re releasing today (charts featuring podcasts and TV/video sources will be released later this month). This chart features 110 of the 2,770 web/print sources we’ve rated so far (and we’re analyzing more every day). We know it’s hard to read all of the source logos, so we’ve provided a list of those 110 here.

We curate a list of sources to include each month because it’s impossible to put all of them in a single image (the logos would overlap and appear on top of one another, and the result would be an image that is impossible to read).

Here’s a list of the sources that fall within the green box on this chart. Some on this list are local sources; some are national. All have been found by our analyst team to be generally reliable and minimally biased (many more web/print sources fall within the green box, and they will be included in future releases of the Media Bias Chart®).

1440 Newsletter
Above the Law
AZ Mirror
Ballotpedia
Barrett Media
Bellingcat
Boston Herald
CBC Canada
CBS 8 San Diego KFMB
Christianity Today
CNN (website)
CTech
Defense News
El Especialito
Fortune
Fox Business (website)
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
HuffPost
Newsweek
NPR (website)
Pew Research Center
Prison Legal News
Puck News
Quillette
RealClearDefense
Reuters
Roll Call
Straight Arrow News
The Advocate – Baton Rouge
The Hill
The New York Times
The Reload
TheGrio
Upworthy
USA Today
USAFacts
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
World News Group

Eight sources make their debut on this month’s chart:
Above the Law
Barrett Media
Evie Magazine
Irish Star US
The Last Refuge
The New American
User Mag
WION

📆📰 Millions of Americans were impacted when it was announced that SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benef...
07/11/2025

📆📰 Millions of Americans were impacted when it was announced that SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits would stop on Nov. 1 due to the government shutdown. Federal judges have since ruled that the government must use emergency funds for the program. Our analysts rated media coverage in our Topic of the Week.

Reporting from CBS News and ABC Denver 7 KMGH provided the most fact-based and minimally biased coverage from our content set. The CBS article explains the effects of the delayed SNAP benefits to families, food banks and to local businesses such as grocers. KMGH focuses its reporting on how the SNAP suspension affects a local family and food pantry. Both articles were found to be a “mix of fact reporting and analysis” with a “balanced” bias.

An article from Salon was found to be “opinion” with a “hyper-partisan left” bias. The article’s bias is evident in the headline: “MAGA salivates at the chance to cut off food stamps.” The subhead accuses “the right” of spreading “tired, racist tropes about recipients” (“welfare queens, couch potatoes”) to “stoke division and shore up continued support for the shutdown from the MAGA base.” The article concludes that for the GOP, “starving the hungry might not simply be an unfortunate byproduct of required austerity. It could very well be its true purpose.”

Scoring slightly lower was a video from The Joy Report YouTube channel. The video’s headline gives an overview of the topic: “Poor White Americans FURIOUS To Learn SNAP Was NEVER Just For Black People!” The video shows various social media clips of people pointing out that most SNAP beneficiaries are white and claiming that some Trump voters are surprised to learn that not just black people will lose benefits, but they will, too. The host, Gladys Liyala, shares USDA statistics about SNAP and says that for years, politicians have “radicalized” the program by making “welfare sound like something only minorities used” but in fact, most recipients are white and living in red states. Analysts noted the mocking headline and use of stereotypes when rating the video as “selective or incomplete/unfair persuasion” with a “hyper-partisan left” bias.

Looking at media coverage on the right, analysts rated an article published by RedState and a video from the MattMorseTV YouTube channel. The article clearly blames Democrats for the government shutdown, and thus, the lapse in SNAP benefits (“Democrats continue to put politics over people,” the headline says). The article repeats Republican talking points about the “Schumer shutdown” and proclaims, “… Senate Republicans have voted 14 times to fund SNAP, while Senate Democrats have declined to do so 14 times.” Analysts found the writing to be “selective or incomplete/unfair persuasion” with a “hyper-partisan right” bias.

The video also blames the government shutdown on the left, stating that it’s “entirely manufactured by Chuck Schumer and the Democrats,” but it goes further. The host, Matt Morse, says that most SNAP recipients aren’t Americans at all and that whites receive only 8% of SNAP benefits (USDA and Department of Agriculture data refutes both of these claims). He accuses the Democrats of “trying to lie about the entire situation” while they “import immigrants from the Third World” while “handing out benefits left and right to illegal aliens.” Morse further states that “the Democrat’s number one policy point really is not just replacing all of us actual Americans, but also making all of us pay for the entire process.” Analysts noted several inaccuracies related to immigration and SNAP benefits and the inclusion of conspiracy theories. The video was rated as containing “inaccurate/fabricated info” with a “hyper-partisan right” bias.

📆📰 President Trump announced last week that he would end trade negotiations with Canada after the province of Ontario ai...
31/10/2025

📆📰 President Trump announced last week that he would end trade negotiations with Canada after the province of Ontario aired TV ads in the U.S. that included video of former President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs. Our team analyzed four articles and two videos published by the media about Trump’s announcement, Canada’s commercial, and the Reagan video itself.

The most balanced coverage from our content set came from an article by CNBC and a video from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s show, “About That With Andrew Chang.” Both received a bias rating of “middle/balanced.”

The CNBC article lays out the facts of Trump’s announcement and the TV ad, which aired during the first two games of the World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers. It includes comments from both President Trump, who said the video was misleading, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who said the commercial achieved its goal to reach a large U.S. audience. Analysts gave the article a reliability rating of “mix of fact reporting and analysis.”

The CBC video features host Andrew Chang breaking down how the Reagan video was “selectively edited” but not “fake,” as Trump accused. Chang says the ad selectively chooses and reorganizes Reagan’s words to make a point, and he shares that the Reagan Foundation also says the ad “misrepresents” Reagan’s 1987 speech. But Chang concludes that the ad fairly describes Reagan’s overall message about tariffs — he wasn’t a fan of them generally — and Chang believes the ad won’t stop trade talks between the U.S. and Canada. Analysts placed this video in the “analysis” category of reliability.

An article from Blaze Media also was scored as “analysis” but received a slightly lower bias score, in the category of “skews right.” The article focuses on Trump’s reaction to the ad when he accused Canada of interfering in an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case regarding tariffs. The article lists several ways the Reagan video was edited. Analysts found the article slightly favors Trump’s opinion about the TV commercial, leading to a “skews right” bias rating.

An article from Zero Hedge and a video from The David Pakman Show were both found to be “opinion” reporting with converse bias scores. The article focuses on the fact that the TV ads, which the article calls “Canada’s propaganda ad campaign,” were pulled on Monday following pushback from Trump, stating “America’s neighbors to the north screwed around and found out the consequences …” when Trump threatened to end all trade talks with Canada. The article describes Ford’s announcement to suspend the ads as “Canada bends the knee,” which is “not a good look for globalist Carney” (referring to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney). The article earned a bias score of “strong right.

With a headline of “Canada sick of Trump, says ‘bye-bye’ to USA,” the video features the host, David Pakman, declaring, “Canada’s done with the United States.” Pakman plays video clips of a recent speech by Prime Minister Carney in which he declares that “this decades long process of an ever closer economic relationship with the United States is now over.” Pakman says that “Trump doesn’t respect democracy,” which is why the U.S. finds itself “tighter with dictators and authoritarians” such as Vladimir Putin while it destroys relationships with our “Western democratic allies” like Canada. The consistent criticism of Trump, and the host’s opinion that “This is not good for the United States,” led to the video’s bias rating of “strong left.”

The lowest-rated reporting from our content set came from an article by Wonkette. Even before reading the article the bias is apparent, as it features a .gif of President Trump’s head on a child who is laying on the ground having a tantrum. The headline reads: “Canada Does A Mean And Nasty To Donald Trump By Quoting Ronald Reagan Accurately.” The article describes Trump as “America’s pissbaby president” and “President Brain Damage,” among other insults. It describes the Reagan ad as “pretty effective” and “not wrong,” calling a statement from The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute “bullsh*t.” Analysts noted the frequent insults and misleading conclusions in the article when rating it as “selective or incomplete/unfair persuasion” with a “hyper-partisan left” bias.

📺📼 TV/Video Chart, Oct 2025 We’re back with our final Media Bias Chart® release for October — the chart focusing on TV/v...
28/10/2025

📺📼 TV/Video Chart, Oct 2025
We’re back with our final Media Bias Chart® release for October — the chart focusing on TV/video sources. This chart includes network and cable TV news shows, YouTube channels, video podcasts and documentaries. And for the first time, we’ve also added town halls.

You’ll see two town halls on this chart: “Shutdown America: A CNN Town Hall With Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – October 15, 2025,” and “NewsNation: Cuomo Town Hall Live from the Kennedy Center – October 15, 2025.” Both were recently broadcast in response to current political gridlock in Washington, D.C., and debate about immigration enforcement throughout the U.S.

The format of town halls is to encourage questions from the general public and those in the attendance. Politicians are on hand to answer those questions, and one or more journalists are there to act as moderators.

As with all news sources, we rate the actual content that is presented for reliability and bias. For TV and audio programs, that often includes one or more hosts and guests and all the things each of them say. If a guest or interviewee dominates the discussion, the bias and reliability of the overall episode will be made up mostly of the bias and reliability of what the guest says. That’s how we rate town halls.

The recent town halls rated by our team received remarkably different bias and reliability scores, as you can see in the chart image. The CNN town hall is in the lower left, in the “hyper-partisan left” category of bias and “selective or incomplete/unfair persuasion” category of reliability. The NewsNation town hall scored much higher, with a bias score of “middle/balanced” and a reliability score of “analysis.”

It’s easy to understand why these town halls received very different scores when you look at who appeared on the panels. At the CNN town hall, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both Democrats, were on hand to answer questions. It’s no surprise that the content analyzed by our team reflected opinions from the political left. Analysts noted that Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez did not directly answer the questions they were asked, and they inaccurately described statements by Republican leaders such as Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, leading to the reliability rating of “unfair persuasion.”

The NewsNation town hall, however, included representatives from both sides of the political aisle: members of the Trump administration, GOP and Democrat elected officials, and political commentators. Our analysts found the content from this town hall more balanced, reflecting various viewpoints on the debated issues.

The two town halls are among 44 sources on the October Media Bias Chart® for TV/video. We’ve rated more than 800 shows in total, but it’s impossible to display them all in one image — the source logos 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.

Thirteen shows appear in the green box of the October chart. Remember: Sources rated as minimally biased and fact-based are found within the green box. (More TV/video sources fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on charts in the future.)

ABC: Good Morning America
ABC: Nightline
C-SPAN Live Stream
CNN: Fareed Zakaria GPS
CNN: The Arena with Kasie Hunt
EWTN: EWTN News Nightly
Fox News: Special Report w/ Bret Baier
i24: The Rundown
NBC News NOW: NBC News Daily With Morgan Radford and Vicky Nguyen
NewsNation: Cuomo Town Hall Live from the Kennedy Center – October 15, 2025
PBS News Weekend
PBS: Frontline
The Weather Channel: America’s Morning Headquarters
Eight sources appear on the Media Bias Chart® this month for the first time:

Black Conservative Perspective (YouTube)
Candace Owens: Becoming Brigitte
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
MSNBC: The Weeknight
NewsNation: Cuomo Town Hall Live from the Kennedy Center – October 15, 2025
NTD: Good Morning with Stefania Cox & Cary Dunst
Shutdown America: A CNN Town Hall With Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – October 15, 2025
The Weather Channel: America’s Morning Headquarters

📆📰 Thousands of pages of group chats from Young Republican groups in New York and other states were published by Politic...
23/10/2025

📆📰 Thousands of pages of group chats from Young Republican groups in New York and other states were published by Politico last week. The messages contained comments such as “I love Hitler,” “Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber” and “Stay in the closet f—-t.” Our analysts rated media coverage about the messages and the immediate fallout in our Topic of the Week.

The most fact-based and balanced coverage from our content set was published by UPI and Newsweek. The articles received identical bias and reliability scores, in the categories of “middle/balanced” and “mix of fact reporting and analysis.” Both stories lead with the news that the New York Republican Party had disbanded the NY Young Republicans chapter in response to the messages. The articles provide the facts about the group chats and include reactions from both Republican and Democratic leaders equally.

ABC’s “The View” covers the story by focusing on the response from Vice President J.D. Vance. The hosts condemn the group chats and the reaction from Vance, who said that “kids” shouldn’t have their lives ruined because they made some bad comments. The hosts discuss the language in the messages and condemn those who make light of it, criticizing President Trump and Vance and concluding that these types of messages are typical from “the right.” Analysts rated the video as “opinion” with a “skews left” bias.

Scoring slightly lower was an article from The Nation, which also focuses on the reaction from Vice President Vance. The headline reads: “JD Vance Thinks That Tomorrow Belongs to Hitler-Loving Young Republicans. In a post-shame era, racist slurs and Na**sm can be shrugged off.” But the article also rebukes Trump, stating that “his utter lack of shame” is what has reshaped the Republican Party. The article accuses Trump and Vance of being “paternal and protective” of these Young Republicans because they know they’re the future of the party. Analysts rated the article as “opinion” with a “strong left” bias.

The Gateway Pundit also leads with Vance’s reaction, stating that he is “lashing out, with good reason.” The article’s author, Jim Hoft, the founder of The Gateway Pundit, blames Democrats for “leading the charge to annihilate young Republicans for off-color ‘jokes’ in private group chats” while ignoring comments by Virginia Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones, who “fantasized about murdering Republican lawmakers and their children.” Hoft declares that “the media works for the Democrat Party” because it has downplayed Jones’ comments while featuring the messages from the Young Republicans. Analysts found the reporting to be “selective or incomplete” with a “hyper-partisan right” bias.

The lowest-rated coverage from our content set this week came in a video from the Mark Dice YouTube channel. The host starts by saying the media is trying to “hype up” the “artificial outrage” story in order to “demonize us normal people.” He scoffs at Democrats’ reaction to the messages and calls Republicans who denounce them as “weak” and “cowardly.” Dice downplays the language in the messages, calling it “edgy humor among friends,” and calls the person who leaked the messages a “traitor” and “vile.” Analysts noted several instances of name calling and insults in the video and rated it as “selective or incomplete” with a “most-extreme right” bias.

📆📰The NFL has announced that Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny (aka Benito Ocasio) will headline the 2026 Super Bowl halftim...
17/10/2025

📆📰The NFL has announced that Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny (aka Benito Ocasio) will headline the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show. The Latino artist previously stated that he would not perform shows during his current tour on the mainland U.S. because of concerns about ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids at his concerts. Our analysts looked closer at media coverage of the NFL announcement, and the reaction to it, in our Topic of the Week.

The most balanced and fact-based coverage from our content set came from articles by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corp.) and The Hill. Both received identical bias and reliability scores from our analysts, in the ranges of “middle/balanced” and “simple fact reporting.” Both articles focus on the NFL announcement and Bad Bunny’s background and career. Neither touches on the reaction to the announcement from President Trump or by others from across the political spectrum.

Looking at coverage from right-leaning sources, an article from Blaze Media and a video from The Rubin Report received similar scores from our analysts, placing their bias rating in the category of “strong right” and their reliability rating in “opinion.”

The Blaze article focuses on the news that Turning Point USA will present a competing performance, The All American Halftime Show, for those “who would prefer a wholesome and patriotic halftime show in English.” The article includes reaction from “American conservatives and other patriots,” including President Trump, to both the NFL halftime show and Turning Point USA’s. Analysts found that the article includes right-leaning opinion on Bad Bunny and the culture wars.

The Rubin Report video includes a conversation between Dave Rubin and co-host Sage Steele. Both criticize the choice of Bad Bunny, calling some of his videos “demonic” and stating that he isn’t an appropriate choice to perform for an “American sport.” They speculate about other musicians that they feel would be a better fit for the “Americana” demographic of the Super Bowl. They call the choice of Bad Bunny “concerning” and say organizers are trying to “poke the bear” as a “push back” following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

On the left, analysts rated an article from Daily Beast and a video from the Occupy Democrats YouTube channel. The article was found to be “opinion” with a “strong left” bias. It focuses on reaction from “Trump-aligned conservative figures,” who call Bad Bunny a “Trump hater” and the NFL decision to have him perform “another massive L.” The headline reinforces the tone of the article: “MAGA Melts Down as Bad Bunny Is Named as Next Super Bowl Headliner.”

The Occupy Democrats video applauds Saturday Night Live for having Bad Bunny host a recent episode, calling it “an in-your-face move on SNL’s part to push back against the white Christian nationalism that fuels the MAGA movement and Trump’s power base.” The video host, Anthony Vincen Gallalo, claims the only reason conservatives don’t like Bad Bunny is because he’s Hispanic and he speaks Spanish, not because of his music. “This isn’t a bunch of rock and rollers sneering at disco. No, this is a bunch of rednecks angry that someone who is not white and speaks Spanish makes more money than they do.” Analysts noted the number of insults in the video and a misleading headline (“Bad Bunny STUNS TRUMP, Goes VIRAL WORLDWIDE”), rating it as “selective or incomplete/unfair persuasion” with a “hyper-partisan left” bias.

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