Predicting Political Bias with Python – Linalgo – Medium

Recent scandals around fake news have spurred an interest in programmatically gauging the journalistic quality of an article. Companies like Factmata and Full Fact have received funding from Google, and Facebook has launched its "Journalism Project" earlier this year to fight the spread of fake stories in its feed. Discriminating between facts and fake information is a daunting task but often times, looking at the publisher is a good proxy to gauge the journalistic quality of an article. And while there is no objective metric to evaluate the quality of a newspaper, its overall quality and political bias is generally agreed upon (one can for example refer to https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/). In this article, we present a few techniques to automatically assess the journalistic quality of a newspaper.