I tend to check any news source against some or all of the following sites to get an estimate of their bias:
https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings#ratings
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/search/#gsc.tab=0
and specific news stories on sites like
https://www.factcheck.org/
https://www.truthorfiction.com/
When I see comments on here, they often link to sites which those evaluation sites regard as highly untrustworthy.
Those sites regard the Daily Mail, for example, as biassed right (
https://www.allsides.com/news-source/daily-mail )
and right-wing and questionable authenticity (
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail/ )
People can do their own searches for Breitbart, Guido Fawkes, Infowars and so on, all of which are regularly quoted on this site.
They all come out as right-wing (some extreme) and many as questionable.
Is this because people are far-right, or because they don't know how to check facts, or is it that they will believe anything, if it reinforces their prejudices? Or is it that I sit in a bubble of some kind that means I do not see things as these websites protray them
What do you think?