Media Bias Explained by ChatGPT and it is Impressive
I have been playing around with ChatGPT for a while and was not very impressed due to its limitations. However, it did recommend a great…
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Don’t be too quick to blame social media for America’s polarization – cable news has a bigger effect, study finds
The past two election cycles have seen an explosion of attention given to “echo chambers,” or communities where a narrow set of views makes people…
Trump blasts ‘bonkers’ media spewing ‘Radical Left Democrat views’
President Trump on Monday lashed out at the media, targeting The Washington Post in particular, as he remained fixated on coverage of his ongoing attacks on four progressive congresswomen….
U.S. journalism really has become more subjective and personal — at least some of it
A deep linguistic analysis finds that newspapers today are a lot like newspapers 30 years ago. But TV news — especially cable news — has…
Violence against the media isn’t new – history shows why it largely disappeared and has now returned
The Capital Gazette in Annapolis lost five staffers in a shooting. AP/Patrick Semansky Jennifer E. Moore, University of Minnesota Duluth and Michael J. Socolow, University…
More Republicans in the news? That’s not media bias
It’s difficult to measure media bias. Lawrey/shutterstock.com Dominik Stecula, University of Pennsylvania A July 20 report, analyzing news content from The New York Times and…
Polarization, Partisanship and Junk News Consumption over Social Media in the US
What kinds of social media users read junk news? An Oxford University study analyzed the distribution of the most significant sources of junk news in…
A century ago, progressives were the ones shouting ‘fake news’
An 1894 cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper criticizes American newspapers’ elasticity with the truth. Library of Congress Matthew Jordan, Pennsylvania State University Donald Trump may…
The Making of a Questionable Source: The About Page – Part 1
This is the first in a multi-part series that will look at how Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC) determines if a source is Questionable or…
Media tested anew in ‘war’ with Trump
When Donald Trump sought this week to lump white supremacists and those protesting against them into the same bag, he triggered a political firestorm with…