No BS. Just News.
Every day, the same events happen in the world. But depending on which outlet you read, you'd think you were living in different realities. Headlines are framed to push narratives. Context is selectively omitted. The story you get depends on who's telling it.
NewsRally started as a community-driven experiment where users voted on article bias. The idea was sound, but people are busy. Crowdsourcing bias detection at scale didn't work.
Now we have AI agents that never sleep. Every day, our agents scrape the top news sources, cluster articles about the same story, and perform deep bias analysis. For every major story, we produce:
BS stands for Bias Score. (What did you think it stood for?) Every story gets a BS rating from 0 to 100, measuring how biased the overall media coverage is. Individual articles are also scored and tagged with their bias direction (Left, Center-Left, Center, Center-Right, or Right).
The BS rating considers both individual article bias and the variance across outlets. If sources wildly disagree on how to frame the same event, that itself indicates more BS in the media landscape.
How much is a source's headline baiting you compared to what the article actually says? The Headline Bait score (0-100%) measures clickbait and sensationalism, not political bias. A headline can be perfectly unbiased but wildly clickbaity, or politically slanted but factually accurate. We score them independently.
We look for sensationalism, missing qualifiers, emotional language not supported by content, buried ledes, and misleading cause/effect claims. A headline that says “X Destroys Y” when the article describes a mild disagreement scores high.
Not all news is equally significant. The Significance Score (0-100) rates how much a story actually matters in the real world, regardless of how much media attention it gets. Viral stories can be trivial. Under-covered stories can be crucial. This score helps you cut through the noise.
We consider: how many people are materially affected, whether there are lasting consequences, whether it changes policy or institutions, and whether a well-informed person genuinely needs to know about it. Media attention level is deliberately ignored.
Our pipeline runs multiple times daily, scanning thousands of articles from across the media landscape. Articles about the same story are automatically clustered together, and AI agents perform deep comparative analysis, reading each source's coverage side by side to identify differences in framing, omitted context, and narrative bias.
As stories develop throughout the day, headlines update with new information. Later pipeline runs incorporate newly published articles, keeping our analysis current without creating duplicates.
We analyze news sources spanning the full political spectrum, from wire services like the Associated Press and Reuters, to major outlets like The New York Times, CNN, Fox News, and The Wall Street Journal, to opinion-driven publications on both the left and right. International perspectives, digital-native outlets, and regional papers round out the mix.
We're constantly expanding our source list to ensure comprehensive coverage. More sources means better analysis. When we can see how dozens of outlets frame the same event, patterns of bias become impossible to hide.
Our AI analysis may contain errors. We encourage readers to always check primary sources. NewsRally is a tool for awareness, not a replacement for critical thinking. We publish our methodology openly because we believe transparency in media analysis is just as important as transparency in media itself.
