Title: Is CNN a credible news source? And, is it considered fake news? And, why does President Trump hate it so much? - Quora
Headings: Is CNN a credible news source? And, is it considered fake news? And, why does President Trump hate it so much?
Is CNN a credible news source? And, is it considered fake news? And, why does President Trump hate it so much?
Mark Throckmorton
Responding to: Is CNN fake news all the time? Whose interests is CNN serving when they publish unverified news?

Content: What’s unusual is that, as the highest ranking official charged with protecting the Constitution and our right to free speech, he’s making a concerted effort to delegitimize any person or institution that is critical of him and has endorsed considerably less credible sources that are supportive of him. Alex Zorach
, Founder & Editor at Bplant.org (2019-present)
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CNN is not among my favorite news sources. According to Media Bias/Fact Check, an independent website that I trust a lot, CNN is rated “Left Bias” and “Mixed” in factual reporting. I don’t necessarily think that there is anything wrong with left-biased or right-biased sources, there are many sources rated in these ways on that site that I like, but I am more bothered by their rating of “Mixed” in the factual reporting category. Media Bias / Fact Check tends to give sites a fair amount of leeway before downgrading them from the “High” category to “Mixed” (i.e. a news network can make plenty of i
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CNN is not among my favorite news sources. According to Media Bias/Fact Check, an independent website that I trust a lot, CNN is rated “Left Bias” and “Mixed” in factual reporting. I don’t necessarily think that there is anything wrong with left-biased or right-biased sources, there are many sources rated in these ways on that site that I like, but I am more bothered by their rating of “Mixed” in the factual reporting category. Media Bias / Fact Check tends to give sites a fair amount of leeway before downgrading them from the “High” category to “Mixed” (i.e. a news network can make plenty of isolated mistakes but still be in the “High” category…keep in mind they also have a “Very High” category, which they classify BBC in), so I think if something is in the “Mixed” category on their site, it’s pretty bad as far as I’m concerned. CNN has failed multiple fact checks run by Politifact, another site I trust a lot. Their ratings are quite poor even compared to other mainstream news sources that have a left bias.