Bias Check Tool
Paste a link to any news article. INDB shows how it rates the outlet, the story if INDB already has it, and how charged the article's language is.
How the Bias Check Tool works
The lean and reliability are the outlet's ratings. Each rating on a source page says where it came from: public databases such as Wikidata, the outlet's own ownership and editorial statements, INDB's reading of what the outlet covers, and staff review.
INDB then reads the page once to score the article's language with the same rules it uses on every headline: clickbait words, capitals and exclamation marks for sensationalism, a list of loaded words and phrases, and positive and negative words for tone. Opinion pieces are recognised from the link and the headline.
It does not guess an article's politics from its words: the lean shown is the outlet's. Nothing from the page is stored.