Rating services like Ad Fontes and Ground News offer public guidance, but critics say they mislabel ethical reporting as partisan bias and open the door to reputational harm.

In an age of misinformation, Americans are increasingly encouraged to “trust the charts.” Prominent platforms like Ground News, Ad Fontes Media, and Media Bias/Fact Check offer visually streamlined systems for evaluating news sources, categorizing them across axes of factual reliability and political bias.

To many educators and casual readers, these services are perceived as helpful tools in navigating a fragmented and polarized media landscape.

But a closer examination reveals that these same tools may unintentionally penalize outlets that reject false equivalence, especially in coverage of controversial policies

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