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AllSides Technologies Inc.
Formerly
  • AllSides Inc. (2012-2015)
  • AllSides LLC (2016–2023)
Key people
Websitewww.allsides.com
External image
image icon AllSides Media Bias Chart [1]

AllSides Technologies Inc., is a public benefit corporation that provides balanced news, civil conversation and bias ratings to news consumers, media companies, schools and other organizations.[2][3][4][5] AllSides Media Bias Ratings assesses the political bias of over 1,400 media outlets from across the political spectrum.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] AllSides provides balanced news coverage and analysis by using its bias ratings to present perspectives from the left, right and center, with the mission to improve media bias transparency and free people from filter bubbles.[8][9][10][12][13][14][15][16] AllSides Technologies Inc. was co-founded by John Gable, Scott McDonald, and Joan Blades.[8][17][18][19]

History

AllSides Inc was co-founded by Gable and McDonald in September 2012.[20][21][22] In 2015, Gable and McDonald partnered with Blades to create AllSides for Schools, a separate non-profit project sponsored by the Mediators Foundation.[23][24] AllSides Inc disbanded in 2016, and its assets, products, and technologies were purchased by AllSides LLC. In 2023, AllSides LLC became a public benefit corporation under the name AllSides Technologies Inc, co-founded by Blades, Gable and McDonald, who also serve as the Board of Directors.[8][17][22]

John Gable (co-founder, CEO, Board Member) is a high tech manager and executive, previously working at Microsoft, Now Software, Kavi (co-founder), Netscape, and Check Point Software before co-founding AllSides.[25] Gable worked in politics in the 1980s for various Republican representatives, including Senator Howard Baker, then-presidential candidate George H.W. Bush, and Senator Mitch McConnell, then switched to the high tech industry after graduating from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in 1993.[8][17][21][26][27][28]

Scott McDonald (co-founder, CTO, Board Member) is a software developer and technology manager. McDonald formerly worked for Thump Radio (co-founder), Check Point Software, and BitTorrent.[8][17][21]

Joan Blades (co-founder, Board Member) is a software entrepreneur, author and political activist who co-founded Berkeley Systems, co-authored The Motherhood Manifesto and The Custom-Fit Workplace, and co-founded multiple organizations aimed at promoting political dialogue and advocacy, including progressive PAC and advocacy group MoveOn.org, MomsRising.org, and Living Room Conversations.[8][17][21][27][29][30][31]

Content

Rating system

AllSides publicly displays the bias ratings of its three co-founders (one from the left, center, and right), staff, and user base.[12][17][21]

AllSides focuses on online written content.[7][12] It rates sources on a left–right scale that is then grouped into five categories (left, leans left, center, leans right, and right) instead of a gradient which the company acknowledged sacrifices precision in favor of simplicity.[7][12] AllSides posts these ratings alongside the articles it posts on its site.[2][12]

Educational content

AllSides partnered with Living Room Conversations, a nonprofit founded by progressive entrepreneur and activist Joan Blades, on educational content through a related organization called AllSides for Schools. Gable, Blades, and their associated organizations have produced lesson plans for schools on how to navigate political conversations and helped create Mismatch, a platform to connect students who differ politically and geographically.[23][24][32]

Reception

Jake Sheridan from the Poynter Institute noted the controversy surrounding bias rating charts in general and recommended that readers consider the reliability of sources in addition to possible bias.[12] He also quoted Kelly McBride as acknowledging bias as an important factor, but not the most important, especially if the charts give a false sense of reliability. Sheridan quoted Tim Groeling as cautioning that while bias is important, charts are not something most consumers would navigate. Both Groeling and McBride praised the methodology of AllSides and Ad Fontes.[12] In 2019, The Guardian columnist John Harris lamented that his experience using AllSides did not help him, as he hoped, to take the mutual loathing out of his news diet.[15]

Dashka Slater includes AllSides in a list of organizations with a nonpartisan mission to encourage Americans to interact respectfully.[33] AllSides was named one of the Most Fundable Companies® by Pepperdine Graziadio Business School in 2023.[19]

See also

Organizations

References

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  2. ^ a b "About AllSides". AllSides. 2022-03-02. Retrieved 2024-08-03. Cite error: The named reference ":0" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  3. ^ "AllSides Services". AllSides. 2022-08-26. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  4. ^ Martin, Daniel (2024-06-04). "5 Best Companies Crowdfunding On WeFunder (August 2024)". www.securities.io. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  5. ^ "EHS Magazine Spring 2018 by Episcopal High School - Issuu". issuu.com. 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  6. ^ AllSides (2019-01-14). How AllSides Rates Media Bias. Retrieved 2024-08-03 – via YouTube.
  7. ^ a b c "How AllSides Rates Media Bias". AllSides. 2016-08-10. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g “AllSides: AllSides provides balanced news, bias ratings, diverse perspectives, and real conversation.” Wefunder, https://wefunder.com/allsides/.  Accessed 30 July 2024.
  9. ^ a b "How Reliable is Your News Source? Understanding Media Bias 2022". MyLO. 2020-10-23. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  10. ^ a b "Episodes". The NewsWorthy. 2022-04-23. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  11. ^ O'Neil, Tyler (2023-05-04). "Think Bing News Might Be a Good Google Alternative for Conservatives? Think Again". The Daily Signal. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h Sheridan, Jake (2021-11-02). "Should you trust media bias charts?". Poynter. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  13. ^ a b "New platforms help overcome biased news reporting - The Fulcrum". thefulcrum.us. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  14. ^ Co-founder, John Gable; AllSides, CEO of (2023-05-04). "Bing News Joins Google and Other News Aggregators in Fueling Polarization". Newsweek. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  15. ^ a b Harris, John (2019-10-22). "No filter: my week-long quest to break out of my political bubble". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  16. ^ "We're Overdue in Demanding Accountability From Wikipedia". The Epoch Times. 2023-10-18. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  17. ^ a b c d e f "Our Team". AllSides. 2023-10-20. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  18. ^ startuplive (2012-08-27). John Gable, CEO of AllSides, A New Startup that Shows You News from Different Sides. Retrieved 2024-08-03 – via YouTube.
  19. ^ a b "2023 Most Fundable Companies | Pepperdine Graziadio Business School". bschool.pepperdine.edu. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  20. ^ Evangelista, Benny. “AllSides compiles varied political views.” SFGATE, 26 August 2012, https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/AllSides-compiles-varied-political-views-3815821.php . Accessed 30 July 2024.
  21. ^ a b c d e "Ownership Information". AllSides. 2021-10-07. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  22. ^ a b Kantrowitz, Alex. "New Political News Site Places Opposing Views Side By Side". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  23. ^ a b "AllSides Education Fund | Strengthening our democratic society". AllSides Education Fund. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  24. ^ a b "Connecting Students Across the Partisan Divide". HuffPost. 2017-06-29. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  25. ^ "John Gable". American Democracy Summit. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  26. ^ "John Gable". Concordia. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  27. ^ a b Connie (2018-05-18). "Living Room Conversations Co-Founder Joan Blades and Allsides CEO John Gable Give Their Take on Better Arguments". The Better Arguments Project. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  28. ^ "Who We Are". web.archive.org. 1998-04-15. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  29. ^ "About Us - Living Room Conversations". 2023-09-29. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  30. ^ "joan". MomsRising. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  31. ^ "A Short History of MoveOn". MoveOn: People-Powered Progress. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  32. ^ Zubrzycki, Jaclyn (2016-09-27). "Teaching the Art of Conversation During a Divisive Election Year". Education Week. ISSN 0277-4232. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  33. ^ Slater, Dashka. "You won't change your cranky conservative uncle over Thanksgiving dinner". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2024-08-03.

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