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Is AllSides Spreading Misinformation by Covering ‘Plandemic’?

News / May 12th, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

Over the weekend, a clip from a documentary titled “Plandemic” went viral , prompting censorship from YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo, and an onslaught of media coverage that roundly condemned the video as containing misinformation, falsehoods, and conspiracy theories. The clip is still...

Misinformation And Disinformation, COVID-19 Misinformation

Introducing AllSides Facts and Fact Checking

News / May 8th, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

Facts are facts, but the way they’re presented (or ignored) can still be biased. Information based in fact can imply things that are misleading or even turn out to be untrue. To better reveal the truth and reality we all seek, AllSides is launching our Facts and Fact Checking Portal ...

Facts And Fact Checking, Media Bias, Fake News

Story of the Week: Lifted Lockdowns Bring Relief, Fears of Regression

Story of the Week / May 8th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. As social distancing restrictions are relaxed throughout the U.S., feelings of liberation are conflicting with concerns of a possible second surge in coronavirus cases. An immensely disrupted economy is an...

Story Of The Week, Coronavirus, Public Health

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News / May 5th, 2020 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

The need for AllSides has become even clearer amid the COVID-19 crisis. Misleading reports, biased media coverage, and conflicting opinions are contributing to confusion during a time when clarity is needed. This is a time to support each other and our communities, yet the old partisan...

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Story of the Week: US Coronavirus Cases Top 1 Million; Pressure to Ease Restrictions Mounts

Story of the Week / April 30th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. More than 1 million people in the United States have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, as the testing capacity and race to create a vaccine become the national focus. Meanwhile, political disputes are...

Story Of The Week, Public Health, Coronavirus

Fake News Alert: Fact-checking What Trump Actually Said About Disinfectant

News / April 28th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

During the White House coronavirus press briefing on April 23, President Donald Trump set off a firestorm of mudslinging and misinformation when he inquired about possibly using disinfectant to treat people with COVID-19. Fact checkers were all over the place after Trump made the comments...

Media Bias, Media Industry, Facts And Fact Checking, Fake News, Donald Trump, Coronavirus, Public Health, COVID-19 Misinformation

Updated Media Bias Ratings: Associated Press and AP Fact Check

Bias / April 24th, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

The Associated Press media bias remains one of the trickiest for AllSides to determine. We have long rated AP media bias as Center ; however, the results of our February 2020 blind bias survey showed participants from across the political spectrum on average believe AP bias is Lean Left...

AP Bias, Media Bias, AllSides Media Bias Ratings

Story of the Week: People Protest Lockdowns as Some States Eye Reopening

Story of the Week / April 23rd, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. Protests against lockdown measures and social distancing guidelines happened throughout the U.S. in the past week, as people grow restless with the coronavirus-induced economic shutdown. Some protesters still...

Story Of The Week, Role Of Government, Coronavirus, Life During Covid-19

Updated Media Bias Ratings: AP, The Hill, NPR, Washington Examiner, Washington Post

Bias / April 22nd, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

AllSides has rated the bias of over 600 media outlets , which are fluid and subject to change. We recently conducted a blind bias survey to review the bias of the Associated Press , The Hill , NPR online news , Washington Examiner , and Washington Post . For this blind bias survey, we...

Media Bias, AllSides Media Bias Chart, AllSides Media Bias Ratings, Conservatives, AP Bias, Washington Post, NPR

Loss and Transformation: Connecting with Others Amid COVID-19

Bias / April 21st, 2020 / By Joan Blades

Anxiety and loss are dominant themes in our lives as the path of COVID-19 careens through our communities. Underneath this, I keep hearing about bright spots and possibilities. That we might discover that we can improve medical care, climate care, work practice, education, provide...

Living Room Conversations, Civil Discourse

Media Bias Alert: N.Y. Times Edits Biden Investigation — After Biden Campaign Complains

Bias / April 16th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

One of the country’s most powerful newspapers published an investigation of a sexual assault allegation against a top presidential candidate. When the candidate’s campaign complained about how the investigation worded detail of some of the candidate’s previously-known inappropriate...

Media Bias, Media Industry, Joe Biden, Elections, 2020 Election

Story of the Week: Trump, Governors Start to Plan Regional Re-openings

Story of the Week / April 16th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. President Donald Trump's administration and state governors are developing plans to ease social distancing guidelines once conditions are deemed safe enough. The rough plan aims to lift some social distancing...

Story Of The Week, Coronavirus, Role Of Government

5 Tools to Avoid Media Manipulation This Election Year

Bias / April 15th, 2020 / By Julie Mastrine

As the 2020 presidential election ramps up, you may find yourself overwhelmed. Political ads, viral memes, heated commentators, social media sparring — there’s plenty of noise in a nation that seems deeply divided about the direction of our country, and everyone seems to be trying to sway...

Media Bias, AllSides, Election 2020, 2020 Election

Media (Mostly) in Unison on Fact Checking Trump Claim

News / April 14th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

President Donald Trump said Monday via Twitter that he has the power to overrule governors in ending statewide lockdown measures. In a rare showing of fact-checking bipartisanship, news outlets located throughout the AllSides media bias ratings spectrum quickly vetted the statement,...

Media Bias, Media Industry, Coronavirus, Donald Trump

Story of the Week: Bernie Sanders Ends Presidential Campaign, Endorses Biden

Story of the Week / April 9th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. COVID-19 is disrupting almost everything about life as we know it. We at AllSides, along with many of our partner organizations, want to do our part in helping you get through it by providing the latest data,...

Story Of The Week, Bernie Sanders, Elections, 2020 Election

Better Angels Becomes Braver Angels

News / April 6th, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

An important announcement: Many of you are familiar with our friends at Better Angels . Better Angels is America’s largest, bipartisan grassroots organization dedicated to confronting political polarization. We don’t have to tell you how important that work is today. Things are changing...

Story of the Week: Coronavirus Projections say Over 100,000 Could Die in US

Story of the Week / April 2nd, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. Projections announced at a White House press briefing Tuesday estimate between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from the COVID-19 coronavirus in the United States. President Trump said the country is facing a "very,...

Story Of The Week, Coronavirus, White House, Public Health, Healthcare

Fact Check: Coronavirus Viral Rumor Rundown

Bias / April 1st, 2020 / By News Literacy Project

Editor's Note: Our friends at the News Literacy Project have curated examples of rumors and fake news when it comes to the COVID-19 coronavirus. Check out the examples below, and share on Facebook and Twitter to alert your friends. Coronavirus Viral Rumor Rundown NO: COVID-19 does not...

Media Bias, Fake News, Social Media, Coronavirus

Media Bias Alert: Media Ignores Coronavirus Death Rates to Attack Governors

Bias / March 31st, 2020 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

Even in this time of crisis and death, some in the news media launched partisan attacks on Republican governors regardless of actual data, including how many people have died. We see this in the media all the time: journalists often cherry-pick commentary and data to support the side they...

Media Bias, CNN, Liberal Media Bias

Tools and Resources for Remote Learning

News / March 30th, 2020 / By AllSides Staff

In these uncertain and challenging times, we are committed to helping teachers and students adapt and thrive. For educators and parents teaching remotely or from home as a result of the novel COVID-19 coronavirus , AllSides for Schools provides tools and classroom material suitable for...

Media Bias, Schools, Education

Perspectives Blog

Six Months Out: State of the Presidential Race