For Civil Society Observers
SVFAB provides systematic, reproducible measurement data on public-service media in 150 countries — as evidence infrastructure, not opinion. We apply the same 18+1 criteria everywhere, including Switzerland. A deviation from balance is a measurement result, not a political statement.
What you can do with our data
Documentation
Systematically and reproducibly document structural bias — with data, not opinion.
Country Comparisons
Compare public broadcasters across countries using identical methodology.
Time Series
Track developments over months, years, or decades — dating back to 1968.
Evidence
Data-based foundations for reports, submissions, or public debate.
Our Methodology
Our analysis is identical across all 150 countries — same criteria, same AI-assisted methodology, inter-coder validated. We measure compliance with the legal mandates of public-service media. SVFAB doesn’t judge — SVFAB measures.
The corpus comprises >25 million items across 70 languages, updated daily.
Contact: kontakt@svfab.ch
SVFAB — Schweizerischer Verein für ausgewogene Berichterstattung (Swiss Association for Balanced Reporting)
Postfach, CH-8021 Zürich