For anyone fighting against the rise of misinformation, sensationalism, and biased news, Ground News Pro will help you easily compare how a story is being covered by thousands of sources from across the political spectrum and from around the world.

Who owns your ~~mind~~ media ? Our new Twitter tool, Mediaopoly, will let you know will let you know who owns the news people interact with. Enter the handle of any public Twitter user to see who owns the news outlets they interact with on the platform.

Hey! I’m Harleen. Ex-NASA 🚀 Engineer and Ground News CEO. Our iOS, Android & Web App have helped 250,000+ users fight biased news. I’m excited to launch Mediaopoly - https://ground.news/mediaopoly - a Twitter tool by Ground News that allows you to visualize who owns the media you consume. ➡️ Why we created it: Journalism is rooted in a strong sense of purpose. It’s often described as a pillar of democracy - a means of holding the powerful accountable - but in most cases, it’s also a business run by powerful people. Ownership is where purpose and profit collide. Mediaopoly lets you visualize the ownership data of the news you consume on Twitter. Take a deeper look at the news sources you engage with. Are most of them owned by one Media Conglomerate? Corporate biases, just like political biases, can influence the news that is reported - and the news that isn’t. ➡️ How to use the tool: ✅ Enter the handle of any public account on Twitter and Mediaopoly will let you know the ownership breakdown of the news the user engages with, their top 3 news sources, and influencers. ✅ Tweet out your ownership breakdown and share your results with your friends! ➡️ Methodology: ✅ Mediaopoly can only access interaction data that is publicly available and it can not read the data of private accounts. These interactions include tweets, retweets, replies, and likes. Because it only analyzes public data, it does NOT require login permissions. ✅ In order to pull the data, the tool parses through an account's last 3,200 tweets and records interactions with news content that have a bias rating. Learn more about our methodology here https://ground.news/mediaopoly/o... We’d love for you to check it out and let us know what you think! I’ll be here answering questions :) Discover us on the web: ➡️ Website: https://ground.news ➡️ iOS/Android App: https://ground.news/product-landing ➡️ Browser Extension: https://ground.news/extension ➡️ About us: https://ground.news/about

@harleen Awesome idea! Definitely, it's important to analyze not only the news but also its initial source! 🧐 Congrats on the launch 🚀

@zheniart Thanks Jenny! You are spot on. We analyze where the new is coming on and also who owns the news source

In reality, this tells you very little. A particular person on Twitter might be regularly criticizing mainstream or conglomerate news sources so they link to them constantly. This vague/broad metric makes it appear as if they are "owned" by those news sources.

@levi1 Thanks for feedback here! The issue you bring up is mentioned in the Limitations section on our Methodology page. However, I do think the information still provides very useful insight. For example, if an influencer is criticizing a source owned by a Media Conglomerate, they are still engaging with it and sharing it with followers. Thus, the influencer's followers are being disproportionately exposed to said media outlet. In that sense, the tool may help an influencer diversify their criticism or begin sharing other types of news.