MIT's Automatic Data-Driven Media Bias Measurement Method Achieves Human-Level Results

Today more than ever, people are voicing concerns regarding biases in news media. Especially in the political arena, there are accusations of favouritism or disfavour in reporting, often expressed through the emphasizing or ignoring of certain political actors, policies, events, or topics. Is it possible to develop objective and transparent data-driven methods to identify such biases, rather than relying on subjective human judgements? MIT researchers Samantha D'Alonzo and Max Tegmark say "yes," and have proposed an automated method for measuring media bias. The proposed data-driven approach produces results that are in close accordance with human-judgement classifications on left-right and establishment biases.