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NPR, WAPO, NYT, BBC, and other papers that strive for objective reporting are all listed as leftist.
Even the terms, "left center" and "right center" are loaded. Go read an academic paper that includes polling. You're going to see terms like "non-aligned", "leans left", and "leans right". Because even the terms we use to discuss bias can induce bias.
There is a substantially pro conservative bias here when objective reporting is placed on the same level as a GOP controlled campaign website such as American Action Network.
At best this is incompetent. At worst this is a long running misinformation op meant to wash right wing propaganda and make it look equal to reporting from The Guardian.
Speaking of which, they have a "mixed" credibility rating based on 5 failed fact checks from years ago. Which is the same rating Breitbart has with double the number of failed fact checks.
In the "long running misinformation op" category of evidence we have several libertarian websites marked as "right center" and "mixed" credibility. As a refresher for those of us who haven't taken a political ideology class, these are the guys who coined the phrase, "drown it in a bath tub" when referencing government. They are the guys running around arguing that your employer's corporation has more 1st and 2nd amendment rights than you do.
So yeah my money is on the guy who runs this thing being a libertarian trying to wash their ideology to look mainstream. Because when you think, the Ayn Rand Institute, and BBC, NYT, WAPO, NPR , and The Guardian all have the same level of bias, you've got some problems.