Tom's Hardware News Site Covering Technology with a Focus on Hardware and Computing

Tom's Hardware is a technology news website that covers hardware and computing with a focus on PC components, including CPUs and GPUs. The site also covers topics such as AI, maker hardware, semiconductors, and tech industry news. The articles often contain detailed technical information about new products and provide benchmark tests for comparing performance. The site occasionally includes some biases, conflicts of interest, and deceptive practices.

60%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This news site has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on its reporting.

Bias

75%

Examples:

  • The articles contain some biases such as celebrating dog-whistling and Vivek Ramaswamy, and using deceptive phrasing to favor Nvidia over AMD.

Conflicts of Interest

50%

Examples:

  • There are some conflicts of interest mentioned in the articles such as Maingear having no plans to launch North PCs with 420mm coolers but instead leaves it as an upgrade option for users.

Contradictions

85%

Examples:

Deceptions

50%

Examples:

Recent Articles

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