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Mental Floss
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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.

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Our A.I. media bias rating of Mental Floss shows what policies Mental Floss supports and opposes including Mental Floss's conservative and liberal leanings based on analysis of three hundred of articles scanned daily using the latest data science and artificial intelligence technologies.
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.

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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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Our policy leanings for Fox News show what policies Fox News is biased on based on the sentiment leanings found in their news articles.
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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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Biasly's Reliability Score is a composite score that includes the rating of the quality of sources, and quotes including their uniqueness and diversity.
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Biasly’s analyst team evaluates politician twitter accounts, voting records, and statements made in the press to determine leanings. Our diverse analyst team includes equal representation from conservative, center, and liberal viewpoints on every article we rate.

The Analyst Bias Score is 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.
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Biasly's Reliability Score is a composite score that includes the rating of the quality of sources, and quotes including their uniqueness and diversity.
News Source Ranking
Mental Floss is ranked 1715 among other media sources and has an average of 5,277,000 monthly visits according to Similar Web.
At Biasly, we rate political news articles from Mental Floss using our Bias Meter technology to provide readers better insight into the conservative and liberal leanings present in today’s media. Here is a list of biases found in articles, political policies, and politician biases from Mental Floss:

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