Is BuzzFeed a reliable source?
This is how independent third parties assess the credibility and media bias of this source.
OVERALL RATING:19 +, 10 -
BuzzFeed scores a total of 19 Plus Points and 10 Minus Points in our evaluation of journalistic quality.
This corresponds to a score of 62* resp. the grade B- (satisfactory).
*: (19 + 5 BP) * 100 / (19 + 5 BP + 10 + 5 BP)
This corresponds to a score of 62* resp. the grade B- (satisfactory).
| Grade | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| very good | A+ | > 89 |
| A | 89 - 84 | |
| A- | 83 - 79 | |
| good | B+ | 78 - 74 |
| B | 73 - 67 | |
| B- | 66 - 62 | |
| satisfactory | C+ | 61 - 56 |
| C | 55 - 49 | |
| C- | 48 - 44 | |
| sufficient | D+ | 43 - 39 |
| D | 38 - 32 | |
| poor | D- | 31 - 26 |
| insufficient | F | < 26 |
Grade composition
The overall rating is made up of the following individual ratings from independent third parties:
Media Bias/Fact Check13 +, 7 -
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an American fact-checking website founded in 2015. It uses a 0-10 scale to rate sites on two areas: bias and factual accuracy. A source rated by MBFC with minimal bias gets 10 plus points. Maximum bias gets 10 minus points. The same principle applies to factual accuracy.
- "Center-Left"
Bias Rating
- "Mostly Factual"
Factual Reporting
Journalism Awards4 +
Journalism prizes are awards for excellent journalistic work in the period covered by the call for entries, which is usually one or two years. Sources receive one plus point for each journalistic award won that we track. We currently track up to three prestigious awards per country.
- "Pascale Müller, Stefanie Prandl: Vergewaltigt auf Europas Feldern, Buzzfeed /Kooperation mit Correctiv"
Nannen Preis
- "Business, Finance and Economics sponsored by TSB: Heidi Blake, Jane Bradley, Tom Warren, Richard Holme, Alex Campbell (Buzzfeed News): For exposing how RBS harmed thousands of businesses for profit during the recession through leaked documents."
- "Specialist Journalism: Patrick Strudwick (Buzzfeed UK): For gripping reporting on the use of electric shocks by doctors to 'cure' homosexuality, highlighting an underreported issue."
- "New Journalist of the Year: Richard Holmes (Buzzfeed UK): For exposing major shortcomings in care standards for vulnerable children in a public interest investigation."
British Journalism Awards
Wikipedia2 +, 1 -
Wikipedia’s reliability was frequently criticized in the 2000s. However, various studies and media reports have noted improvements over time, and in the late 2010s and early 2020s, it was more often praised.
In the scoring model, any positive mention of a source’s credibility or quality in a Wikipedia extract receives a plus point—while negative mentions are treated as minus points.
Fact Checkers2 -
We primarily use fact-checkers affiliated with the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). We have linked to the International Fact-Checking Network fact-checkers' code of principles in the headline. For each failed fact-checker there is one minus point.
Press Council Rulings
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- We are not aware of any press council rulings against this source to date.
Studies
Most scientific publications, though not all, rely on some form of peer review or editorial review to qualify texts for publication. Sources mentioned in studies which rate media quality and/or reliability receive between 10 plus and 10 minus points.
- We have not identified any evaluations by academic studies to date.
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Ad Fontes Media, Inc. is a media watchdog organization based in Colorado that is best known for its Media Bias Chart, which ranks media sources based on political bias and reliability. We combine their ratings of individual articles and episodes to create a weighted average, with low-rated items increasingly weighted higher.
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