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Ground News promises to cut through media bias and deliver the facts. Does it? At first glance, Ground News looks like any other news aggregator. The site displays a menu of trending news topics: Israel-Gaza, artificial intelligence, Donald Trump. In the feed below is a list of headlines. On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 3, 2025, the headline at the top of that list is “Florida becomes first state to end all vaccine mandates for schools.” But there’s no news source attached...

Instead, there is a blue, white, and red graph showing something Ground News calls “bias distribution,” and a handful of AI-generated bullet points. To find the sources for this headline, readers must click on it and then scroll down to a feed that lists news stories from outlets classified as “left,” “right,” or “center.” The Florida headline... Readers then have the option to click through to read the full articles. The site also assigns each outlet a “factuality rating” for how accurate and trustworthy it is as a source, though that feature is paywalled. The tagline of Ground News is “See every side of every news story.” It aggregates articles from more than forty thousand free and subscription outlets, then uses AI to publish a daily average of... The idea is that by presenting a story as a synthesis of articles from outlets across the political spectrum, readers will be able to bypass the bias inherent in any one publication and see...

“When a news event happens, it passes through the prism of our media landscape and shatters into competing narratives,” Harleen Kaur, a former aerospace engineer who is now cofounder and CEO of Ground News,... She added: “After working in areas as complex as space exploration and jet engines, it struck me as unimaginable that we don’t have a simple way to assess the facts about what’s happening around... There is no doubt that the modern media ecosystem is confusing, sharply polarized, and full of misinformation—all conditions that have eroded the public’s trust in news institutions. More than half of Americans say they prefer news with “no particular point of view,” according to a study published in the International Journal of Communication. Trust in national news organizations started dipping in the mid-eighties and went downhill from there; by the late 2010s, the majority of people surveyed said that the news media was “often inaccurate.” This belief... Distrust of news media is particularly pronounced among Republicans, only 53 percent of whom say they have at least some trust in mainstream news, compared with 81 percent of Democrats.

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