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Mental Floss is a popular online platform that covers a wide range of topics. It features articles, quizzes, lists, and videos that aim to educate and entertain readers. The platform was founded in 2001 by Will Pearson and Mangesh Hattikudur. The website offers a lighthearted content filled with facts, discoveries, and tidbits in an engaging manner. They speak about historical events, scientific breakthroughs, movie and TV trivia, and facts about everyday objects. Its online news presence can be found at mentalfloss.com.
Mental Floss is ranked 1715 among other media sources and has an average of 5,277,000 monthly visits according to Similar Web.
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Mental Floss has a Bias Score of -6% Center which is based on a variety of factors including its policy and politician leanings, article ratings, and the use of biased language. Its Reliability is rated as Good, and additional analytical insights are available in the other tabs.

Note: Mental Floss is a news aggregator and may have limited or no original political articles.
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    -6% Center

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    80% Reliable Good
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    *Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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