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Founded by patent attorney Vanessa Otero in 2018, Ad Fontes Media is a company with the mission "to make news consumers smarter and news media better." According to its website, Ad Fontes "uses a systematic approach to content analysis in which a team of politically-balanced professional analysts examine and categorize news content" in order to "[create] data that is useful to news consumers, educators, marketers, and even publishers themselves." This data is presented in their regularly updated Media Bias Chart.
Founded in 2012, AllSides is a company that seeks to "free people from filter bubbles so they can better understand the world -- and each other." Founded by Joan Blades and John Gable (Gable is currently the CEO), AllSides offers a number of tools including a Media Bias Chart.
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