Daily automated tracking of political lean and credibility across 25 Bangladeshi news outlets — the first independent platform of its kind. Monitoring media bias, misinformation, and AI-generated political content for public understanding.
Context: −1.0 = strongly anti-Awami League (opposition-aligned) · +1.0 = strongly pro-Awami League (pro-government). Calibrated to the July 2024 quota reform period. Not a Western left/right scale.
All 25 outlets — today's ranking Click any row to view trend
Platform lean — 30 days
Platform credibility — 30 days
Full lean spectrum — most critical → most pro-government
Shaded band = 95% confidence range · Dot = mean score · Blue = critical of government · Red = pro-government
Measures where each outlet sits on the Bangladesh-specific axis: −1 (anti-Awami League, opposition-aligned) to +1 (pro-Awami League, pro-government). Computed using Moral Foundations Theory — analysing how articles invoke authority, fairness, group loyalty, Islamic obligation, and property rights. Scores are fused through a Bayesian-Kalman filter with 95% conformal prediction intervals.
Credibility Score (0–100)
A Bayesian Beta(α,β) posterior updated by article-level epistemic pollution signals and hard fact-checker verdicts. Recent findings carry more weight (90-day half-life). Outlets consistently publishing debunked content see credibility fall automatically over time.
EPI — Epistemic Pollution Index
Estimates AI-generated or structurally manipulated content using an ensemble of language models and structural heuristics: bigram repetition patterns, lexical diversity, explicit AI self-identification signals in Bengali and English. Higher = more suspected synthetic content.
Confidence Intervals
Every lean score includes a 95% conformal prediction interval (shaded band on trend charts). Wider bands = fewer articles that day = less statistical confidence. Narrower bands = more data, higher confidence. Expert lean priors are seeded from documented editorial history and ownership records, then updated by the Bayesian model daily.
Key Prior Corrections
Amar Desh (−0.60) — BNP flagship, suspended by AL government 2013–2021. Naya Diganta (−0.40) — Jamaat-affiliated, owner executed by AL government 2016. Daily Inqilab (−0.25) — Diganta Media, Jamaat-aligned. These outlets are opposition-aligned, not pro-government, on the Awami League era axis.
Important Caveat
Scores are automated estimates, not human editorial judgement. An outlet can publish excellent journalism while still showing consistent framing patterns across many articles. Treat scores as a starting point for critical reading, not a definitive verdict on any outlet or individual journalist.
Bangladesh Media Watch
Bangladesh's first independent automated platform for daily political lean and credibility tracking across major news outlets in Bengali and English. Built to give citizens, researchers, and journalists an objective, data-driven tool to understand media bias patterns in Bangladesh.
The platform monitors 25 outlets daily, analyses every article using established academic methods, and publishes scores transparently for public benefit. No political affiliation. No commercial interest. A noble contribution to media literacy and public understanding of media culture in Bangladesh.
Scores update automatically each morning. 30 days of history maintained. All methodology is openly documented.
Platform Lead
D
Daniel Khan
Researcher · Media Studies & Philosophy
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Coverage
25 outlets — 18 Bengali, 5 English, 2 bilingual. Includes print, digital, and broadcast media. 3 IFCN-certified fact-checkers integrated for independently verified misinformation data.
Infrastructure
Hosted independently outside Bangladesh on EU infrastructure. Scores update daily at 02:00 UTC. Full 30-day history stored. Open methodology — see the Methodology page.