Vox (website)

We live in a world of too much information and too little context. Too much noise and too little insight. That's where Vox's explainers come in.

Vox is an American news and opinion website founded in April 2014 by former Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein, former Slate columnist Matthew Yglesias and vice president of growth and analytics Melissa Bell, based on the concept of explanatory journalism. In July 2014, Vox received 8.2 million unique visitors, and in August 2019 Vox's readership was estimated to be more than 33 million visitors. As October 2019, the Vox youtube channel has over 6.72 million subscribers and over 1.5 billion views.

Controversies
In March 2014, before it had officially launched, Vox was criticized by conservative media commentators, including Erick Erickson, for a video it had published arguing the public debt "isn't a problem right now".

In June 2016, Vox suspended contributor Emmett Rensin for a series of tweets calling for anti-Trump riots, including one that said "If Trump comes to your town, start a riot."

In December 2018, Vox received criticism from fans of PewDiePie for an article written by Aja Romano which alleged that PewDiePie had ties to the alt-right and white supremacism, and even went as far as including Laci Green among a list of "alt-right identified figures" — which she was not too happy about. Romano has said she had received harassment on Twitter, while many of the fans urged PewDiePie to sue Vox.

Reception

 * Media Bias/Fact Check labels Vox with a left bias and "Mostly Factual" reporting.
 * AllSides rates Vox with a left bias.
 * ad fontes media rates Vox with a reliabilty score of 41.97 (out of 64, above 32 are good) and bias score of -8.75 (-42 to 42, negative scores being more left).