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Mediaopoly — Visualize who owns your news
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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@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!
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
This is brilliant! Thanks for building this. I'm convinced this will be incredibly helpful.
@sarahxjo Thanks Sarah! Glad you are finding it helpful. Check you our main site ground.news to see more of news analysis
Great idea and effort! I will keep coming back to this tool over the next few days.
After going through couple of results, I had gotten curious about how engagement is measured. Thanks for sharing the methodology.
It would be amazing if the nature of engagement (positive/negative) could also be incorporated but can understand the limitations.
That's interesting! I don't use twitter though, but I would love such a product for instagram ;)
@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.
@harleen thanks for the reply, it's interesting to know the whys. Good luck with your product development 👍
@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.
?makers That's a brilliant piece in a picture of a transparent future with responsible capitalism!
@vladimir_levitin1 Thanks for the kind words Vladimir. We'd love to be a piece in that transparent and responsible future.
Cool idea! It's smart to see your own news biases while also examining that of others. (Despite being a former journalist, I'm often unaware of who owns the media companies that I consume.) It's also cool to see how factual the reporting is on average for select media companies that people see content from, but you have to do a bit of digging to find it. Maybe that could be more prominent?
Quick editing note: you have the words "will let you know" repeated twice in the second sentence of your product description above.
This is such an interesting concept, discovering the real influence behind influencers!
This is really amazing and I must really say I enjoyed every bit of being on the tool!
This is awesome! I think Sharon McMahon would absolutely love this and would share it with her followers.
@zheniart Thanks Jenny! You are spot on. We analyze where the new is coming on and also who owns the news source
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