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Harleen Kaur

Mediaopoly - Visualize who owns your news

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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.

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Harleen Kaur
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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
Jenny Art
@harleen Awesome idea! Definitely, it's important to analyze not only the news but also its initial source! 🧐 Congrats on the launch 🚀
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@zheniart Thanks Jenny! You are spot on. We analyze where the new is coming on and also who owns the news source
xwowsersx
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.
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@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.
Aziz
Great idea
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@zizboudi Thanks!
Margarita Shvetsova
That's interesting! I don't use twitter though, but I would love such a product for instagram ;)
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@margarita_s88 we would love that too! Unfortunately, Instagram has been difficult to implement for a number of reasons. It's less interactive and postings are much less frequent - the data is also more difficult to parse through. We'll definitely keep the feedback in mind - down the road we'd be very interested in other social media formats.
Margarita Shvetsova
@harleen thanks for the reply, it's interesting to know the whys. Good luck with your product development 👍
Matt Mirro
Ahaha, love this idea. Thanks Harleen.
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@mattmirro Thank YOU, Matt.
Dawn Veltri
This is awesome! I think Sharon McMahon would absolutely love this and would share it with her followers.
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@dawn_veltri1 Thanks for the recommendation, Dawn! Glad you like the product.
deepu
any plans to scale this to all over the world?
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@pradeeb28 thanks for the question! First, the tool is accessible from anywhere. So, in that sense, it has a global presence. In terms of news aggregation, the answer is a little trickier. News ownership data is very difficult to collect for certain geographic areas. Some of this is due to team bandwidth, but much of it has to do with the other factors like transparency, market data, language, and of course the bias ratings we provide to most of the news outlets we aggregate. Many of these items we hope to address over time!
Mitchell Orme
This is such an interesting concept, discovering the real influence behind influencers!
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@mitchell_orme thanks Mitchell - that's a great tagline.
Sarah Jordi
This is brilliant! Thanks for building this. I'm convinced this will be incredibly helpful.
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@sarahxjo Thanks Sarah! Glad you are finding it helpful. Check you our main site ground.news to see more of news analysis
Richard Itaman
An easy-to-use, super-sleek product
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@richarditaman Thanks Richard! We wanted the product to be as easy as dropping in the Twitter handle.
Ayaz Karimov
That`s very necessary tool for nowadays. I know dozens of people who just spread the wrong news, and it`s always important to know that who is the person shared this news. Good luck!
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@ayaz_karimov1 Thanks Ayaz!
Enrique Cepeda
This is awesome! Such a useful idea! Keep it up guys :)
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@enrique_cepeda thanks Enrique
Md Shakil
@harleen Awesome idea! Definitely, it's important to analyze not only the news but also its initial source! 🧐 Congrats on the launch 🚀
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@mdshaki34195602 Agreed! Thanks for the feedback Md.
Abdur Momin
Go ahead bro
Jami Talukder
Congratulation
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@jami_talukder Thank you Jami!
Oren Levitin
?makers That's a brilliant piece in a picture of a transparent future with responsible capitalism!
Harleen Kaur
Maker
@vladimir_levitin1 Thanks for the kind words Vladimir. We'd love to be a piece in that transparent and responsible future.
Hamd Siddique
Its Interested
wizo 4247
Sounds like a great idea with use case