Avoid Fake News: Don’t Trust These News Sources, Read These Instead
A quick breakdown of the most statistically trusted news sources in 2022
***Updated on 03/02/2022
Back in the summer of 2020, I spent a huge amount of time collecting data on over 100 different news sources used in the US. I looked at website traffic, domain authority, paywalls, and a company called Ad Fontes Media.
They have an interesting project where they hire people from all sides of the political spectrum to statistically analyze news reporting with a tedious methodology.
As my original article is now a bit out of date, I wanted to do a quick update showing the best and worst-performing news organizations according to their massive data field.
Methodology
I’ll try to keep it short and sweet here and leave some links for further reading if you’re keen.
The company:
Ad Fontes Media is a Public Benefit Corporation in Colorado, a for-profit company with a stated mission of benefiting the public. (No, I’ve never heard of these either.) It was started by a patent attorney named Vanessa Otero after her essay about news bias went viral almost 5 years ago.
