Media Bias

This project extracts data from AllSides.com and compiles it into a single JSON file containing the bias metrics for each news source.

Media Bias Structure

This is how the JSONs in the dist folder a structured:

• Consensus: This section provides statistics about how well the community agrees with AllSides ideology assignment of a news source.
  • left, centerLeft, center, centerRight, right: Each generalized American ideology has its own section made of the following properties:
    • label: The numerical value the ideology uses in each news sources bias property
    • totalSources: How many sources AllSides has for this ideology
    • minScore: The lowest community agreement for a news source in this ideology
    • maxScore: The highest community agreement for a news source in this ideology
    • average: The average community agreement for all news sources in this ideology
• Sources: All of the authors, news media, think tank/policy groups, and references AllSides uses
  • url: The URL to get more details about this source
  • source: The name of the source
  • page: What page in the data folder this source can be found in
  • bias: The numerical ideological label for this source
  • agree: How many people in the AllSides communtiy agrees with this bias assignment
  • disagree: How many people in the AllSides communtiy disagree with this bias assignment
  • consensus": The agree-to-disagree ratio of this source

Requirements

This project requires curl, node, and the git checkout:

sudo apt-get install curl
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.7/install.sh | bash
nvm install node
git clone https://github.com/PsySecGroup/media-bias.git

Local Usage

The following command will scrape the current state of AllSides data and compile it into a date-stamped JSON in the dist folder:

cd media-bias
./update.sh

Remote Usage

If you just want to use the JSON as is, you can reference the latest media bias JSON with the following URL:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PsySecGroup/media-bias/main/dist/latest-media-bias.json