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Website: notthebee.com
On-site description: Not the Bee is a humor-based news, opinion, and entertainment site from the creators of The Babylon Bee and Disrn. Like the name suggests, it'll feature some absurd and hilarious (but real) news that seems like it should definitely be satire.
Bias: RIGHT-BIASED
Reliability rating: 30/50 (low-end FAIRLY RELIABLE)
CSBAH Test:
C (Credentials)
Not The Bee's founders are Adam Ford and Seth Dillon, the respective founder and owner of the Babylon Bee, a Christian satire site. Both also own Disrn, a real news site (which has now been rolled into NTB). Adam Ford is a webcomic artist with journalistic experience, and Seth Dillon is a successful businessman, also with some journalistic experience.
NTB lists each post's author below the story. Writers and their credentials can be found here. Most seem like normal people, but some have journalistic experience.
We give NTB a 6/10 in credentials, as though most of their writers are without credentials, they never give health or tech advice without sources, and their stories are mostly copied from their sources with editorial content added.
S (Sources)
Sources used by NTB include:
ABC7—reliable, least biased
Random tweets—sometimes reliable
Politico—reliable, slight left-bias
Fox News—mixed reliability, mostly right-biased
AP News—reliable, least biased
Ars Technica—reliable, least biased
We give NTB a 7/10 for sources, as they always list their sources and use mostly reliable ones.
B (Bias)
NTB's headlines show some conservative bias—take a look at their "CNN" and "Joe Biden" categories and compare them to their "Donald Trump" category.
NTB tends to publish stories with informal and emotional headlines:
"Take a peek under the Orwellian hood with this clip of dozens of oBjEcTiVe media outlets literally reading the EXACT SAME SCRIPT telling you what to believe"
"McDonald's ice cream makers are broken because... RACISM!!"
"California ponzi scheme suspect flees police via an underwater scooter like a straight up Bond villain"
We give NTB a 6/10 in bias, because of right-leaning editorial content in many stories and use of loaded words in headlines.
A (Acclaimed)
NTB has been well-received by fans of Disrn and The Babylon Bee. However, we are not aware of any large news site endorsement.
MBFC News states that NTB is decently reliable, though strongly biased.
We give NTB 5/10 for acclamation.
H (History)
NTB has failed several fact-checks, including:
We rate NTB as a 6/10 in history.
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