BBC News
Foreign OutletSlantwise's combined political orientation rating is Center.
Recorded confidence: High Confidence. This describes rating agreement, not factual accuracy.
Published arcs with BBC News coverage
The saved story receipts for these arcs include reporting from BBC News. Each arc brings together a matter's developments and coverage from different outlets.
- Trump's summits with Xi Jinping, from South Korea and Beijing to Washington
- Hurricane Polo's landfall in Mexico and the floods in the US Southwest
- Harvey Weinstein's Los Angeles conviction and New York retrials
- Hayden Panettiere's death and the investigation that followed
- The Houthis' attacks on Red Sea shipping and the US and Israeli strikes on Yemen
- Charles Spencer's memoir about Diana and his feud with the palace
Recorded ratings
These are the raters' published categories, not Slantwise assessments of factual accuracy. Dates show when we recorded or checked the evidence, not when a rater reviewed the outlet.
Rater panel
| Rater and rating | Evidence and dates |
|---|---|
| Media Bias / Fact CheckLeast Biased | Original rating page ↗ Recorded: May 20, 2026 |
| Ad Fontes MediaNeutral | Original rating page ↗ Recorded: May 20, 2026 |
| AllSidesCenter | Original rating page ↗ Recorded: May 20, 2026 |
On our coverage graphs
Counted as Center, from the raters' rating above. How we count coverage
Editorial note
British public broadcaster. Rated relative to the US political axis — UK political center sits left of the US center. MBFC notes a slight rightward drift in recent editorial framing; AllSides puts the long-window average at Center but close to Lean Left (-0.94).