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- Abbie Richards
- The Adventures of Library Girl!
- All Sides
- Ad Fontes Media: Home of the Media Bias Chart
Abbie Richards
Abbie Richards is a TikToker and TikTok disinformation researcher. She specializes in understanding how misinformation, conspiracy theories, and extremism spread on TikTok and creates educational content which explains these complex issues to a wider audience. She believes that understanding our new world of information is a right, not a privilege, and should therefore be as accessible as possible. So, she puts it on TikTok. She’s amassed a multi-platform following of over half a million people who are interested in learning about these issues.
Abbie is currently pursuing her MSc. where she studies the intersection of climate change and disinformation and she is a co-founder of EcoTok, an environmental Tiktok collective that specializes in social media-based climate communication.
The Adventures of Library Girl!
Jennifer LaGarde has served as a classroom teacher, teacher-librarian and digital teaching and learning specialist. She currently works with educators and school- and district-level leaders worldwide to develop innovative instructional practices. LaGarde’s work has been recognized by School Library Journal, The New York Times and The Carnegie Corporation.
Coauthor of Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News (2018) and Developing Digital Detectives (2021) with Darren Hudgins, LaGarde has a website, The Adventures of Library Girl!, that contains her blog, work and presentation information, and educational resources, activities, and videos to accompany Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News.
All Sides
AllSides™ is a news website designed to “strengthen our democratic society with balanced news, diverse perspectives, and real conversation” by providing all-access balanced news coverage, media bias ratings, civil dialogue opportunities, and technology platform for integration by educational institutions, nonprofits, media companies, and more, exposing everyone “to information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum” to better understand the world and their fellow man.
Ad Fontes Media: Home of the Media Bias Chart
Ad Fontes Media, Inc., founded in 2018 by Vanessa Otero, creator of the Media Bias Chart®, aimed “to make news consumers smarter and news media better.” Ad Fontes means “to the source” in Latin. At the heart of what Ad Fontes Media does is look at the source—analyze the very content itself—to rate it, creating a system of news content ratings with beneficial applications for all stakeholders in a healthy news media landscape, including consumers, educators, publishers, researchers, advertisers, and social media platforms.
Ad Fontes Media rates the news for “reliability and bias” using a large team of human analysts with diverse political views who are trained to look at the content of the news, then score it according to Ad Fontes Media’s methodology creating news content ratings and providing various data products for consumers, educators, publishers, marketers, and others.
For educators, Ad Fontes Media offers a software platform to teach students how to rate the news themselves and an interactive data visualization software platform for advanced users of the data.