ABC News (USA)
Wikipedia classification
Wikipedia's editor community classifies this source as generally reliable for sourcing purposes.
From Wikipedia's perennial sources list (CC BY-SA). This is Wikipedia editors' consensus about citing the source in articles — not Geotone's judgment, and not a general truth rating.
Coverage mix
Most-covered tracked topics
Counts articles matching Geotone's tracked topics only — a coverage-mix sample, not total output.
Measured tone & selection profile
This outlet's headline tone tracks closely with other outlets covering the same stories. Computed as the mean of (article tone − the mean tone of all outlets covering the same story), so topic-inherent negativity cancels out.
n = 1,541 consensus-matched articles, trailing 90 days, English-language story clusters with ≥3 outlets.
These are measured quantities with disclosed formulas — not a bias or reliability rating. Tone is computed from headlines only (article text is never stored), measures framing relative to co-covering outlets rather than factual accuracy, and consensus clusters cover the English-language stream only. See methodology.