Hello, friends. Welcome. Delighted you're with me today. My guest is Vanessa Otero,

and Vanessa is the founder of AdFontes Media. And I have spoken about this platform many times.

They are the home of the media bias chart. And they don't just evaluate news sources for left-right bias. They are the home of the media bias chart. And they don't just evaluate news sources for

left-right bias. They also evaluate them for reliability. And this conversation about why media bias

is important to understand and how we evaluate it, I think it's going to be incredibly useful.

So thanks for being here and

let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon. And here's where it gets interesting. I know that the people

who listen to this podcast, first of all, love what you do if they're familiar with you. If they're

not familiar with you yet, they're going to love what you do.

This is a topic we talk about truly every week, especially on Instagram.

And I am so excited to just hear what you have to say.

Can you give us a brief introduction about your work and how you got to do the type of work that you're currently engaged in. Absolutely. I love to talk

about this. I'm the founder and CEO of a company called Ad Fontes Media, and you may know us for our

famous media bias chart. And how I came to be in this position talking to you today is because in

2016, I created the original version of the media bias chart,

which was just something designed to talk to my friends and family about reliability and bias

of news sources. It got really popular. And then in 2018, I founded this company, AdFontes Media,

to rate the news for reliability and bias in order to fight misinformation and

polarization. So now I have a team of analysts to do this with me. We can get into more

details about that. But I'm really excited to be here because these are problems I know that are

near and dear to your heart because we just see how this affects people, families,

friends, so many aspects of our society. So really excited to talk about this.

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