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Ad Fontes Media, Inc. is a Colorado -based, media watchdog, public benefit corporation [1] primarily known for its Media Bias Chart, which rates media sources in terms of political bias and reliability. The organization was founded in 2018 by patent attorney Vanessa Otero with the goal of combating political polarization and media bias.
There is consensus that Ad Fontes Media and their Media Bias Chart should not be used in article space in reference to sources' political leaning or reliability. Editors consider it a self-published source and have questioned its methodology.
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". [4][5]
About Ad Fontes Media Ad Fontes Media is the producer of The Media Bias Chart ®, which rates media sources in terms of political bias and reliability. The company was founded with the mission of rating all the news to positively impact the media ecosystem.
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.
Ad Fontes Media and AllSides have assessed ideological biases of online sources to produce media bias charts, and presents similar stories from different perspectives. [ 245 ] [ 246 ] Accuracy in Media and Media Research Center have a conservative bent while Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) and Media Matters for America work from a ...
A new proposed section, "Use in Academic Research", is presented below: Ad Fontes Media ratings, and associated individual article ratings, are used in "reputable academic research". An advantage of using Ad Fontes data is that “it publishes ratings of news articles on a common topic from the same news cycle”. [1]
In 2017, Attkisson created a media bias chart that was reused by right-wing blog PJ Media [43] and characterized as "a bastardization" of that produced by Ad Fontes Media. [44] According to PolitiFact, this chart "labels anything not overtly conservative as 'left'".