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News Facts Network→ New AI Study Uses Media Bias Fact Check to Accurately Detect Political Bias in News
A groundbreaking study published in PLOS One demonstrates that machine learning can effectively detect political...
News Facts Network→ Missouri Moves Closer to Ending Racial Hair Bias in Education With CROWN Act
Missouri could become the 28th state to protect natural hair textures from discrimination, as Gov....
The Dispatch→ The Media’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Bias. It’s Self-Importance.
The industry is a mess in part because it believed its own hype.
FactCheck.org→ Google’s ‘Where to Vote’ Search Result Reflects Quirk of Candidate Surname, Not Bias
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take Social media users alleged bias against former President Donald Trump when a Google search on Election Day for “where to vote” returned an interactive map to find
Health Feedback→ Study claiming 74% of deaths due to COVID-19 vaccines contains signs of potential biases, uses flawed methodology
REVIEW In late June 2024, social media posts on Facebook claimed that “73.9% of deaths” from a collection of 325 autopsy case reports were “significantly linked to COVID-19 vaccination” (examples here and here). These posts referenced a revi
The Dispatch→ Big Law Has a Liberal Bias (Live from Vanderbilt University)
Political pain yielding political change via Chevron.
Health Feedback→ Testimony by Steve Kirsch on the alleged harms of vaccination relies on flawed, biased analyses
REVIEW Vaccines protect against potentially life-threatening infectious diseases. Thanks to vaccination, some infections, like smallpox and polio, that took more than 400 million lives globally and disabled many others are now eradicated or signific
The Dispatch→ A.G. Sulzberger on NYT, Objectivity, and Media Bias
"Journalism's essential value."
Washington Post→ Does DOJ have ‘anti-Catholic bias’? Josh Hawley presses Merrick Garland.
We detail the facts concerning two incidents cited by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.).
Snopes→ Is the Florida Homework Assignment About Trump and Media Bias Real?
Readers asked if a picture truly showed part of a homework assignment handed out to students at a Florida middle school.
Snopes→ Snopestionary: What Is Confirmation Bias?
Just because we want something to be true doesn’t make it so.
AllSides→ Has a Wikipedia Founder Complained About the Site’s Liberal Bias?
https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/fact-check-has-a-wikipedia-founder?s=r The post was marked as poten
AllSides→ Fact Check: Has a Wikipedia Founder Complained About the Site’s Liberal Bias?
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The Dispatch→ Fact Check: Has a Wikipedia Founder Complained About the Site’s Liberal Bias?
(Stock photo from Getty Images.)Singer and right-wing activist Ted Nugent claimed in a recent Facebook post that a Wikipedia founder has decried the website’s liberal bias.The post was marked as potential misinformation by Facebook’s fact-c
Snopes→ Judge Approves Fix to Stem Race Bias in NFL Concussion Deal
Outrage over the use of “race-norming” in the dementia testing forced the NFL and players' lawyers back to the negotiating table last year.
Health Feedback→ No, a study from Denmark didn’t find that COVID-19 vaccines make people more prone to infection; biases in the study likely led to underestimated vaccine effectiveness
REVIEW A Substack article written by journalist Alex Berenson claimed that “vaccinated people are at higher risk of Omicron”, citing a study conducted by researchers in Denmark. The article received more than 2,500 user engagements on Facebook,
Snopes→ Lego Pledges To Remove Gender Bias from Toys
The company commissioned a survey that showed girls’ confidence in all types of play is still held back by societal pressure.
Full Fact→ Was Michael Gove right about court ruling over bias in contracts?
“The High Court has found that you broke the law last week in your department’s awarding of a £500,000 contract to Public First, which was run by your friend and former special adviser James Frayne. That’s a breach of the minis
Snopes→ Retired Black Players Say NFL Brain-Injury Payouts Show Bias
The NFL has insisted on using a scoring algorithm on the dementia testing that assumes Black men start with lower cognitive skills.
Snopes→ Study: Facebook Delivers Biased Job Ads, Skewed by Gender
Facebook is showing different job ads to women and men in a way that might run afoul of anti-discrimination laws, according to a new study.
Snopes→ Native American Nominee’s Grilling Raises Questions on Bias
Many in Indian Country were incensed.
Poynter→ Should you trust media bias charts?
Impartial journalism is an impossible ideal. That is, at least, according to Julie Mastrine. “Unbiased news doesn’t exist. Everyone has a bias: everyday people and journalists. And that’s OK,” Mastrine said. But it’s not OK for news organizat
Snopes→ Your Brain’s Built-In Biases Insulate Your Beliefs from Contradictory Facts
Several well-known mechanisms in human psychology enable people to continue to hold tight to beliefs even in the face of contradictory information.
FactCheck.org→ Bogus Claims of Debate Moderator Bias
Quick Take A tabloid story alleging that Kristen Welker, moderator of the final presidential debate, is politically biased has spawned several falsehoods on social media. Welker hasn’t donated to any federal candidates, and she wasn’t ̶
Snopes→ Political Bias in Media Doesn’t Threaten Democracy — Other, Less Visible Biases Do
As long as we think of governance in terms of its entertainment value and media bias in terms of Republicans and Democrats, we’ll continue to be less informed than we need to be.
Snopes→ Citing Racial Bias, San Francisco Will End Mug Shots Release
San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said the department will no longer release booking photos of suspects to the media or allow officers to post them online.
Lead Stories→ Lead Stories Response to False Accusations of Bias from The National Pulse
After Lead Stories fact checked a story by The National Pulse they published an article accusing us of bias in favor of the Democrats after first quietly correcting their story. Several of the accusations are blatantly false, for example that
Snopes→ Matt Lauer Says Ronan Farrow’s Work on Him Was Shoddy and Biased
Lauer suggested that Farrow, who won a Pulitzer for his work on the accusations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, was less than thorough in vetting his work.
Snopes→ White Supremacist Propaganda Spreading, Anti-Bias Group Says
Incidents of white supremacist propaganda distributed across the nation jumped by more than 120% between 2018 and last year, making 2019 the second straight year that the circulation of propaganda material has more than doubled.
Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Vermont Socialist Plans Mayoralty with Bias Toward Poor’ Headline
As the Iowa caucuses edged closer in January 2020, Twitter account @CANCEL_SAM shared a screenshot of a purported 1981 New York Times article ostensibly about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) bearing the headline, “Vermont Socialist Plans Mayor
Snopes→ Watchdog Report: FBI’s Russia Probe Justified, No Bias Found
The findings undercut President Donald Trump’s claim that he was the target of a “witch hunt.”
Snopes→ Judge Finds No Bias from Jussie Smollett Special Prosecutor
A Chicago judge decided to keep a special prosecutor looking into why the state's attorney's office abruptly dismissed charges against actor Jussie Smollett, finding there's "no indication he harbors any bias."
Snopes→ Court Tosses Black Man’s Murder Conviction Over Racial Bias
The removal of black prospective jurors violated the rights of inmate Curtis Flowers, the court said in a 7-2 decision.
Snopes→ 12 White Men Sue San Francisco Police for Race, Sex Bias
They said they were passed over for promotions because of their race and gender.
Snopes→ Trump: Mueller Is a ‘Never Trumper,’ Who Led a Biased Probe
Special Counsel Robert Mueller did not use the word "impeachment" but said it was the job of Congress to hold the president accountable for any wrongdoing.
Snopes→ Face Recognition Researcher Fights Amazon Over Biased AI
Many researchers have shown how AI systems, which look for patterns in huge troves of data, will mimic the institutional biases embedded in the data they are learning from.
Snopes→ Does This Meme Demonstrate Racial Bias in Tax-Evasion Prosecutions?
What do these four examples have in common? Nothing of significance, as far as we can tell.
PolitiFact→ PolitiFact is not biased — here’s why
"PolitiFact is biased," our critics charge. We see this in emails and on social media, especially in the heat of election season. We expect it. Afterall, as an independent group measuring accuracy, we are disrupting the agendas of parti
Snopes→ ACLU: Facebook Allows Gender-Biased Job Ads on Its Platform
The ACLU accused Facebook of discrimination, saying the company violated federal and state laws prohibiting businesses from excluding women from job ads.