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Nov 8, 2024 10 tweets 3 min read
Tuesday night solidified the most consequential political realignment in the American electorate in decades.

These 9 charts explain how monumental shifts among different generations, genders, races, and socio-economic classes led to a second Trump term 🧵 Image The Democrats gained support from high-income voters, a traditionally conservative leaning group. Image
Jul 11, 2024 24 tweets 8 min read
Since the debate, the media has heavily reported and opined on the President's cognitive ability.

How did the media cover (or not cover) Biden's mental fitness before the debate?

A thread on the news blindspots that led to the bursting of millions of news bubbles on June 27th. Image In December 2018, then 76-year-old Joe Biden called himself a ‘gaffe machine,’ saying it was a ‘wonderful thing compared to a guy who can’t tell the truth.'

His reputation as a ‘gaffe-prone’ has been long noted by the media, even before his terms as Vice President. Image
Nov 10, 2023 12 tweets 5 min read
A report claiming that The Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times, and CNN may have had prior knowledge of the October 7th Hamas attacks on Israel recently went viral.

The news outlets have refuted the claims, and the company behind the report has since backtracked its comments.

We took a look at how the story developed and what information is available today.

Here’s what we know so far.
Image On November 8th, HonestReporting, a group that says it "monitors the media for bias against Israel" posted a report claiming that AP, Reuters, The New York Times, and CNN may have had prior knowledge of the October 7th Hamas attacks on Israel.
Oct 18, 2023 19 tweets 7 min read
A blast at a Gaza hospital yesterday sent shockwaves around the world, with Israeli and Palestinian authorities trading blame.

Conflicting reporting and misinformation online have made it hard to know what happened and who was responsible.

Here's a timeline of the major developments in the story so far.
Image On October 17, news broke of a blast at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City. Palestinian authorities claimed at least 500 people were killed and accused Israel of striking the hospital by air. News outlets repeated the claims in their initial reporting.
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Aug 8, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
An illegally-attached garden hose led to the discovery of a Chinese-owned lab in California filled with mice, unknown chemicals, and infectious agents like COVID-19.

The story has made headlines in right-leaning media while being largely ignored by the left. Here's what to know. Image According to @CBS47, local authorities launched an investigation into a warehouse in Reedley, California, after code enforcement workers spotted a garden hose illegally attached to the building in March.

Search warrants were then obtained to investigate the building.
Apr 21, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read
After removing legacy blue checkmarks, Twitter has also removed labels describing media outlets as government-funded, state-affiliated, or publicly funded.

@NPR, which left Twitter in protest of its label, is one of the outlets to have theirs removed.

Here are some others. 🧵👇 Image @BBC Image
Apr 20, 2023 9 tweets 6 min read
A string of shootings in which victims mistakenly approached the wrong home has made headlines this week. We compared the shootings of Ralph Yarl and Kinsley White to see how the media covered each, particularly when discussing race.

Here's what we found. 🧵 Image Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old Black teen, was shot by Andrew Lester, an 84-year-old White man in Kansas City, after Yarl rang the doorbell of what he thought was a family friend’s home to pick up his younger brothers.

The story was covered by 144+ sources. ground.news/article/kansas… Image
Apr 19, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
Each week, we ask the readers of the Blindspot Report to answer polls relating to the stories we share in the newsletter. Here’s your chance to have your say too.

Vote on the polls below to see how your perspective compares to the readers of the Blindspot Report. Image Three US Republican state senators want to ban trophies being given out in youth sports to people "based solely on their participation". #BlindspotForTheRight

Full story: ground.news/article/partic… Image
Mar 31, 2023 12 tweets 9 min read
Donald Trump’s indictment has been covered by 560 sources spanning across 41 countries and 6 continents, making it the most reported news story of 2023 so far.

Here are some front pages that readers across the world woke to this morning. 🧵👇 @CBCNews 🇨🇦
Mar 30, 2023 16 tweets 4 min read
Today, Donald Trump was indicted in New York and will be the first US president to face criminal charges.

How did we get here, and how has the media covered the story?

Here’s a timeline of events, starting from 2006 when Trump met Stormy Daniels. In 2006, Donald Trump met adult film actress Stormy Daniels at a celebrity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe. According to a 2018 interview with “60 Minutes,” Daniels says Trump invited her to dinner and she met him at his hotel suite where they had sex.
Mar 30, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
The World Health Organization has updated its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations.

Here’s what they now recommend. 🧵👇 For older adults and younger people with other significant risk factors, the WHO recommends a vaccine shot either 6 or 12 months after the latest dose, based on factors like age and immunocompromising conditions.
Mar 30, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
The newest wave of artificial intelligence could automate as many as 300 million full-time jobs around the world.

Here’s what we know so far. 🧵👇 A new report released by Goldman Sachs economists predicts that 18% of work globally could be computerized. Construction and repair work is likely to be the least impacted, according to economists, while administrative workers and lawyers are likely to be the most impacted.
Feb 28, 2023 20 tweets 11 min read
The lab leak theory of COVID-19 has swirled since the beginning of the pandemic, initially dubbed a "conspiracy theory" by some media outlets and scientists.

Here's how it went from "fringe" to being seen as the "most likely" origin of Covid by multiple government agencies. 🧵👇 In late December 2019, reports emerged out of Wuhan, China of a mysterious pneumonia outbreak that has symptoms similar to SARS and bird flu. Eventually, the disease was identified as COVID-19.

Full story: ground.news/article/rss_15…
Feb 28, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
The US Energy Department has concluded that a lab leak in China was the most likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a classified intelligence analysis shared with the White House and Congress.

140+ sources covered the story. Can you #MatchTheHeadline to the source? Image Who do you think wrote the headline above?
Dec 19, 2022 34 tweets 10 min read
A comprehensive guide of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and tenure as Twitter’s CEO through news headlines.

🧵👇 4/14: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter for $41.39 billion.

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Dec 6, 2022 16 tweets 8 min read
There’s been a lot of talk about the coverage bias of the Hunter Biden laptop controversy.

A 🧵on how the original story and subsequent major developments have been covered by the media, starting with the original NYPost story, to the #TwitterFiles as reported by @mtaibbi. The original Hunter Biden story reported by the @nypost was covered almost entirely by right-leaning media, with some exceptions. @business covered the story and the @washingtonpost wrote an analysis about the ‘alleged laptop’.

Coverage analysis: ground.news/article/12cf4d…
Nov 22, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Introducing Mediaopoly - a tool that enables you to visualize who owns the news that you interact with on Twitter.

Enter your handle to find out if the ownership of your media diet is diversified, or if your news consumption habits skew a certain way.
ground.news/mediaopoly?utm… Mediaopoly is the evolution of the Blindspotter - a media literacy tool that enables you to visualize the political bias of your news bubble on Twitter.

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