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Sorry, no, even in the right-wing Overton window hellhole that is the US, not giving credence to the completely, obviously baseless and brazenly fascist lie that the 2020 election was stolen isn't bias toward the "center-left".
The offense I take is that MBFC consistently conflates reporting actual, undeniably factual statements with left-wing bias, which is emblematic of the ridiculous place it chooses to plant its center (US politics is their stated location). But more importantly, even from that ridiculously skewed starting point, it's patently ridiculous to call these organizations "center-left".
MBFC is a trash organization that poisons the well for sources by calling them left-biased on the basis that they report true things. They themselves show consistent bias toward the right-wing (for example, they consider both The Guardian and Breitbart "MIXED" in their factual accuracy based on wild double standards) but then try to equate basic factual reporting as political bias.
I think Stephen Colbert said it best: "Reality has a well known liberal bias"
What labels are the alternatives here?
So what label would you be happy with?
I think you forgot "center". From the perspective of US politics, these are basically the most centrist publications you can get your hands on without penalizing "not reporting false, far-right conspiracies as true or even plausible" as a leftward bias. And if you determine in the context of US politics that undeniable facts are biased, then why on earth would you explicitly choose to plant your center in US politics? MBFC absolutely has a choice in that regard.
You can use the same terms as political scientists. Left leaning, right leaning, far left, far right, centrist, non-aligned, specific ideology, specific demographic, objective, non aligned.