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AllSides Technologies Inc. is an American company that estimates the perceived political bias of content on online written news outlets. AllSides presents different versions of similar news stories from sources it rates as being on the political right, left, and center, with a mission to show readers news outside their filter bubble and expose media bias. [2]
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an American website founded in 2015 by Dave M. Van Zandt. [1] It considers four main categories and multiple subcategories in assessing the "political bias" and "factual reporting" of media outlets, [2] [3] relying on a self-described "combination of objective measures and subjective analysis".
Media bias occurs when journalists and news producers show bias in how they report and cover news. The term "media bias" implies a pervasive or widespread bias contravening of the standards of journalism, rather than the perspective of an individual journalist or article. [1]
Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire. Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks , typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.
Apple is continuing to beef up its News App, announcing this morning the launch of a 2018 section covering the U.S. midterm elections, with the section including content from a curated list of ...
In light of the staff layoffs at BuzzFeed in January 2019, some editors recommend exercising more caution for BuzzFeed News articles published after this date. The site's opinion pieces should be handled with WP:RSOPINION. BuzzFeed News shut down in May 2023, and its archives remain accessible. [8] See also: BuzzFeed. 1 2 California Globe 2021: ...
Viewers called the Scripps News Viewer Hotline with questions about polls, and how we here at Scripps News consider them in our reporting.
The term "fake news" has been weaponized with the goal of undermining public trust in news media. [155] President Donald Trump seized on the term "fake news" [161] [162] as a way of denigrating any story or outlet critical of him, even appearing to claim to have invented the term [163] and handing out so-called "Fake News Awards" in 2017. [164]