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Ground News positions itself as a bias-focused news comparison tool that aggregates roughly 50,000+ outlets and emphasizes bias, factuality and “blindspot” metrics to let users compare how the same st...
Independent, readily available records in the provided set do not contain a systematic audit comparing Rachel Maddow’s Russia–Ukraine war reports against independent fact‑checkers; the sources instead...
MeidasTouch is funded primarily through small-dollar grassroots donations, merchandise and ad revenue as a media network, and has an affiliated political arm — a Super PAC/committee — that reports don...
MeidasTouch has faced repeated scrutiny over its funding and spending practices: OpenSecrets reports the MeidasTouch PAC raised $2.72 million in the 2021–2022 cycle , and Rolling Stone criticized the ...
Dave (Dave M.) Van Zandt is the founder, owner and primary editor of Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), a privately held LLC that began in 2015 and is widely cited online as an independent media-bias ratin...
MeidasTouch operates as both a media company and a super PAC; OpenSecrets and the FEC record MeidasTouch’s PAC raising millions—OpenSecrets reports $4.7 million in 2019–2020 and $2.7 million in 2021–2...
Ground News aggregates bias by importing third‑party ratings from AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, then averaging or combining those external labels into its Bias Bar and outlet ra...
Ground News assigns outlet bias by averaging the published ratings from three third‑party monitoring organizations: AllSides, Ad Fontes Media, and Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) . Its factuality score i...
Available reporting identifies two different figures named Dave(n) Van Zandt. One is David E. Van Zandt, an academic who led The New School and has board roles including AMC Networks and the American ...
Reporting from D Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review/Tow Center and others found multiple signals tying the resurrected Dallas Express to the Metric Media “pink slime” network — including contemp...
MeidasTouch Network (MTN) presents itself as an independent, privately held media company run by the Meiselas brothers and not owned by any larger media or technology conglomerate, a position the orga...
Cable news gave Donald Trump extraordinary airtime beginning in 2015 — studies show networks aired roughly two hours per day of Trump during the 2016 campaign and he got far more coverage than rivals,...
and have been publicly linked to efforts that : reporting shows they met with top Russian officials including , were involved in shaping and pitching peace proposals, and that journalists and analysts...
MeidasTouch’s most contentious work centers on a handful of high‑visibility political videos and ad campaigns — notably “Trump Kills US,” the early “Are You Better Off?” spot, and the viral nickname a...
Steven Monacelli has publicly identified and reported on individuals and networks tied to white supremacist and neo‑Nazi activity, most prominently naming ICE assistant chief counsel James “Jim” Rodde...
Steven Monacelli has been the target of public accusations from at least one local activist grouping and conservative outlets alleging racist harassment and conspiracy-mongering, and those allegations...
Steven Monacelli has publicly documented a multi-pronged campaign of harassment and disinformation tied to a network of right‑wing actors: he reports being targeted by a propaganda website that used f...
Public records portals exist in Dallas County for court and civil filings and are the first place to look for financial or organizational documents, but the reporting assembled here shows that publicl...
Mainstream outlets have reported rumors linking Bill or Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump sexually largely as viral, evidence‑light claims circulating on social media and tied to the public release of ...
Extremist-monitoring groups label someone a "white supremacist" by triangulating ideology, expressed beliefs, organizational ties, and behavior: explicit advocacy that white people are superior, membe...