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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]
Fact checkers certified by the IFCN have identified 25 fake news stories published by OpIndia between January 2018 and June 2020. [92] [93] Pensa Brasil pensabrasil.com Has the same Google AdSense and Google Analytics codes as AosFatos.com. [81] Plantão Brasil plantaobrasil.net Has the same Google AdSense and Google Analytics codes as AosFatos ...
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".
The civil rights movement, Vietnam War, and Watergate scandal highlighted media influence and accusations of bias. The introduction of cable news and later social media in the 21st century intensified concerns about polarization, misinformation, and media trust. Issues of bias extend to coverage of race, gender, and international conflicts.
Otero sees the Media Bias Chart as an "anchor" that counteracts political polarization in news media, and aspires for Ad Fontes to become a "Consumer Reports for media ratings". [5] She compared low-quality news sources to junk food , [ 12 ] and described sources with extreme bias as "very toxic and damaging to the country".
The RMIT ABC Fact Check was focused on political fact-checking, [10] but was discredited after gross examples of its bias were revealed. [33] As of the 1st of July 2024 it has ceased operation and will be replaced with ABC News Verify.
Since November 2014, FactCheck.org has published twenty-eight pages of articles checking the facts on the many 2016 presidential candidates. [18] As of April 2016, the five remaining candidates had dedicated archives to their fact-checked claims. In 2016, FactCheck.org became a fact-checking partner of Facebook. [3] [19]
NewsGuard Technologies was founded in 2018 by Steven Brill and L. Gordon Crovitz, who serve as co-CEOs. [5] Crovitz was a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal. [2] In 2018, Joyce Purnick, former bureau chief and editor at The New York Times, and Amy Westfeldt, an editor with the Associated Press for 25 years, joined Newsguard.