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AI helps detect media bias, informing voters and news consumers
In 2024, a collaborative Penn venture introduced a more objective way for people to examine how different outlets cover the same events and ultimately decide how they perceive and use information shared in the media.
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A collaborative venture at the University of Pennsylvania launched the Media Bias Detector, an AI tool that evaluates news articles for topic, tone, political lean, and the facts and people featured. Developed in Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab—a partnership among Penn Engineering, the Annenberg School for Communication, and the Wharton School—the system aims to give readers a more objective view of how outlets cover the same events. The framework and a dataset of over 140,000 articles from the 2024 U.S. presidential election were detailed in a new Science Advances paper led by Duncan Watts.
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