Review of AllSides Technologies, Inc.


Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Their articles and references on…

Their articles and references on Left-Right bias are skewed due to the prevalence of American media sources.

Their article on the biases of fact-checkers misunderstood how statistics work, criticising Politifact for giving a "mixed" review to the statement that more white people are killed by police than Black, when Politifact correctly noted that there are proportionally more white than black people in the USA, and ratios are an essential part of accurately identifying disadvantages across demographics.

They also criticise a fact check by The Washington Post for taking context and implications of the speaker into account, describing it as the subjective judgement of claims, "often beyond the hard facts", to give a final “fact check” rating.

I believe this website is in good faith, but their understanding of fact checking is amateur and fundamentally flawed. The assertion that this website makes, namely, that each statement should be assessed as true or false independent of context and subtext in order to accurately appraise the overall veracity is simply incorrect.

13 March 2022
Unprompted review