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Now comes the growth.AllSides started as the trusted standard for balanced political news. We're now something bigger: a platform for understanding any issue, from every angle. Thanks to our investors from Wefunder we spent 2025 building the products to make that real. Revenue was flat — and we have no regrets.In early 2026, the market is validating that bet from multiple directions at once. This campaign closes before most of it converts to revenue — which is exactly why the terms won't be available in the next round.What's validating right nowCarnegie Corporation of New York — $500K grantCarnegie reached out to us cold, based on our reputation. After reviewing our full proposal, they increased their initial grant offer. Over two years, we'll pilot new platform features with teachers and librarians to measure impact on media literacy and students' willingness to seek multiple perspectives.Newsweek — multi-year client, pilot results, wants to expand“Over the years, we’ve partnered with AllSides on bias audits, which not only helped us produce a more balanced publication, but built trust with our audience — and increased our readership. So, when we tried Roundtables, we knew we were in good hands. What surprised us was how eager people were to actually talk with each other — the conversations gave us insights and new content we’d never get from polls or comment sections.”— Jennifer H. Cunningham, Editor-in-Chief, NewsweekOur Roundtables pilot with Newsweek reached 630+ participants and showed measurable shifts in understanding and engagement well above benchmarks. Newsweek is actively looking to expand the program.US government — Balanced News Studio advancing internallyA senior public affairs official at a major US government agency tested our new Balanced News Studio product and presented it to senior leadership last month. The product curates balanced information for internal communications — a use case that has nothing to do with political media and everything to do with how enterprises stay informed.Fortune 500 client, 4 years runningOne of America's largest cable companies has renewed our Bias Services year after year. That's enterprise stickiness in a market we're only now beginning to sell into aggressively — with a dedicated sales team in place for the first time.Two new products add a $10 billion market.With Roundtables and the Balanced News Studio, AllSides is entering markets we’ve never played in before: qualitative research, corporate communications, and audience engagement and deliberation. We’ve already closed some early deals, and we’re in late-stage discussions with some major clients. The combined US market size is over $10 billion.AllSides is already in late stage discussions with major clients and partners for our latest technology — Roundtables and the Balanced News Studio — expected to disrupt the qualitative research and corporate communications markets, a nearly $5 billion opportunity.An audience that trusts us — and pays attentionOur audience is roughly 35% left, 38% right, 27% center — a political balance nearly impossible to replicate, and what makes AllSides a credible neutral platform for any enterprise or government client. That same trust shows up in our new premium newsletter: 65,000+ subscribers, average open rates around 45%, roughly double the industry average. Paid subscribers open at 53–57%.What this round fundsThe market for trusted, balanced content is expanding fast — beyond news into enterprise communications, government, and education. This round funds our next phase: shipping AI-powered tools, dialogue reporting software, and Bias Services channel partnerships. We have a dedicated sales team in market for the first time and active conversations with significant potential partners across media and government. 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Their spread on social media is becoming increasingly alarming under current global geopolitics.\" - Yip\"I am a misinformation researcher and speak and teach on this topic. 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Here you'll see me, Co-founder and CTO Scott McDonald, and Enzo (who wasn’t much of a programer) in my garage trying to describe a problem without a name, while building something that didn't exist, for people that wouldn't realize they needed it for another 10+ years.Now the world knows the problem, have seen how division and lack of understanding is ripping us apart, and they know they need so...","published_at":"2026-04-22T20:32:55Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/306057","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/306057"},{"id":305008,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:305008","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"Big Week for Bias — and Two Days Left at Wefunder","preview":"Big week here at AllSides, and the last chance for you to invest or share with other people who might also want to support AllSides and our mission.Our Wefunder round closes on Thursday April 23 at 11:59 PM ET. After that, early bird terms are gone. For years AllSides has been a leader in media bias, balanced information and breaking people out of their filter bubbles. This year our latest Bias Analysis of Apple News spurred an ongoing national discussion about what balanced information actua...","published_at":"2026-04-21T20:32:58Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/305008","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/305008"},{"id":299979,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:299979","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"Balanced News Studio opens new markets before round closes","preview":"As I mentioned previously — AllSides is entering a new phase. For years, most people knew AllSides as a trustworthy source of media bias ratings and balanced news, but in the background we have been preparing to meet a much bigger need — the need for understanding. From individual voters to large corporations, the problem in today’s chaotic environment comes down to “I don’t know what to believe anymore!” Even worse, sometimes we confidently believe things that are not true, or at least not e...","published_at":"2026-04-14T14:19:07Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/299979","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/299979"},{"id":297256,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:297256","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"A major win from Carnegie","preview":"AllSides has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.With it, we are building a media literacy program and platform for schools across the nation, and adding a media literacy layer to our balanced information platform for all of our customers. More critical thinking for everyone! Teachers in all 50 states already use AllSides tools and services to teach media literacy and current events. 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One of our newest initiatives, AllSides Roundtables, opens an entirely new market opportunit...","published_at":"2026-04-07T13:00:00Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/295819","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/295819"},{"id":291755,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:291755","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"AllSides is Entering a New Phase of Growth","preview":"For years, AllSides has been known as a media bias rating and balanced news company, but we have been building an even broader foundation — the technology, the framework, and the trust — needed to help people navigate a complex and often dysfunctional information ecosystem. But the real unmet need isn’t more news — it’s understanding. Understanding is needed in the workplace, where teams must collaborate across differences. It is needed in schools, where students are learning how to engage wi...","published_at":"2026-03-31T15:26:26Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/291755","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/291755"},{"id":289145,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:289145","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"AllSides ending investment round, entering new phase","preview":"Dear AllSides investors and followers,Want to be sure you are among the first to know that as we enter a new phase at AllSides, we are closing our investment round in April.AllSides’ new releases (with more to come) enter us into the highly lucrative qualitative research and the corporate comms markets. The size of these markets in the US is $2-$3 billion and $2.2 billion annually, and we already have new clients and a growing pipeline of 6 figure deals.This puts us at a whole new level for f...","published_at":"2026-03-27T13:17:17Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/289145","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/289145"},{"id":270507,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:270507","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"Inside AllSides’ 2026 Strategy Retreat","preview":"Once a year, AllSides hosts “AHIP,” or All Hands In Person, our staff retreat and strategy session. Getting together once a year is both an important opportunity for our team to strategize and connect, and simply a blast. We are a fully remote team that works hard, so it is an extra special joy for us to get together in person.This year we convened in Orlando, Florida. Here is a rough overview of what we did, plus some fun photos.Why is AllSides Remote?AllSides from its early days set up and ...","published_at":"2026-03-04T18:23:34Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/270507","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/270507"},{"id":241025,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:241025","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"2025 was a defining year for AllSides","preview":"In a media environment that continues to fragment, accelerate, and polarize, our work has only become more necessary — and more impactful.This year, AllSides reached new milestones in audience growth, partnerships, and financial sustainability. But just as importantly, we continued to mature as an organization: strengthening our methods, expanding our reach, and offering new tools to deepen trust with readers, educators, companies, and institutions who rely on us for clarity in a complex news...","published_at":"2026-01-09T13:50:06Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/241025","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/241025"},{"id":210752,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:210752","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"Newsweek and AllSides to host a National Roundtable + new tech","preview":"Since you're a follower or investor of AllSides, I wanted to let you know about something we are announcing today.On Thursday, November 6, Newsweek and AllSides are hosting the National Roundtable on Political Violence. This major dialogue event is expected to bring together 10,000 participants for transformative conversations with each other. Join us.When we started AllSides, hardly anyone recognized political polarization as an issue. Today, in the wake of the assassinations of Charlie Kirk...","published_at":"2025-10-23T23:07:56Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/210752","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/210752"},{"id":185762,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:185762","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"We must act and act wisely.","preview":"Dear Friends,Like many of you, I was heartbroken to learn of the tragic shooting of Charlie Kirk. Regardless of where you stand politically, violence like this impacts us all. It is a sobering reminder that our nation is in deep trouble.It is not enough to be sad. It is not enough to be mad. We must act and act wisely if we are to restore civil society and reinvigorate our nation.This is why AllSides exists.For over a decade, we’ve been sounding the alarm about both the problem and the fundam...","published_at":"2025-09-17T15:05:26Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/185762","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/185762"},{"id":184759,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:184759","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"Hatred is easy. Building is hard.","preview":"Back in 1997, just before joining Netscape Navigator as a product manager, I gave a speech on how the internet would teach us to discriminate against each other in new ways. Sadly, that prediction came true.\u0026nbsp;Don’t misunderstand — I “drank the Kool-Aid” and continue to believe in the extraordinary benefits and still-growing future potential of the internet and a connected world. But depending on how it is developed and how we use it, let’s not deceive ourselves – it is not all roses. The ...","published_at":"2025-08-14T21:46:27Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/184759","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/184759"},{"id":183313,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:183313","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"Our biggest impact and opportunities ahead","preview":"For years, AllSides client services have brought in more revenue than our news subscriptions. Our biggest impact and opportunities moving forward are rooted in technology and services — not just news. To the average news consumer that visits our website, this is not obvious, but that changes soon.\u0026nbsp;Long before the general public worried about algorithms, social media and AI, and the deep divisions they generate, AllSides understood the problem and took it on. For years we were practically...","published_at":"2025-06-27T19:32:30Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/183313","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/183313"},{"id":181685,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:181685","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"The AllSides X Influencer Bias Chart: Update from Julie Mastrine, Director of Marketing and Media Bias Ratings","preview":"Hello everyone,\u0026nbsp;You probably saw that we released the AllSides X Influencer Bias Chart last month. Why should AllSides rate social media influencers? Viral tweets can carry as much (or more) weight than mainstream media, and it’s more important than ever to understand the bias behind the content we consume.\u0026nbsp;As our followers know, we are much more than a news media company. We’re concerned with the entire information ecosystem and how it impacts all of us – in schools, in the workpla...","published_at":"2025-06-12T14:09:23Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/181685","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/181685"},{"id":181683,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:181683","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"We’re Extending Our Wefunder Campaign! New announcements coming.","preview":"We have several exciting announcements to make this quarter, and we wanted to give more people the opportunity to join us on this journey, so we have decided to extend our Wefunder campaign.We think you will like what we will be announcing, not just in how it supports our social good mission, but also in the great returns it will bring for your investment. Just like many health technology companies, the good we provide the world and our financial returns grow together.We’re grateful for your ...","published_at":"2025-05-01T19:34:37Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/181683","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/181683"},{"id":181682,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:181682","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"Is Peter Thiel talking about AllSides?","preview":"Hello everybody, Not long ago, Jason Calacanis of the All-in Podcast reposted a video on X of Peter Thiel talking about the kinds of companies that attract him the most. When I watched it, I did a little dance in my chair.For years at AllSides, we’ve struggled to clearly describe the category that AllSides leads. The “common-wisdom” is that you want potential investors to immediately understand your category, but AllSides is doing something different. Just like Amazon in its early days was no...","published_at":"2025-04-29T11:42:53Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/181682","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/181682"},{"id":181684,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:181684","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"The unmet demand for sanity","preview":"Time and time again as I travel and talk to people about what I do at AllSides, I hear a plea for sanity.\u0026nbsp;People ask me: can we truly listen to each other, discuss the key issues of the day, consider possible ways to address those problems and collaborate (or even compromise) as needed to implement solutions?News and social media love to highlight the worst examples of what’s broken, and the most extreme, you might think that sanity is not an option, that it is not possible, or even that...","published_at":"2025-04-22T14:20:41Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/181684","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/181684"},{"id":181237,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:181237","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"AllSides’ April Fools Whiplash – More Than A Joke","preview":"Hello everyone,\u0026nbsp;Every year AllSides publishes a prank on April Fools Day. Topics are suggested and voted on by the team – but it’s really the highlight of the year for our Bridging Coordinator and Media Analyst Clare. This year we published an announcement, “AllSides Sells to Bipartisan Billionaires.”Behind all of the fun, there is a serious point behind this year’s prank. People need balanced, credible, independent information, that is free of corrupting influence, and that’s what AllSi...","published_at":"2025-04-09T18:11:55Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/181237","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/181237"},{"id":180977,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:180977","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"Investors are Backing AllSides","preview":"Hey there, Some quick highlights from our growing network of investors:As of today, over 600 people have invested $350,000 via Wefunder. This diversified ownership helps us stay independent and on mission, and we intend for it to pay off handsomely for all our investors. It has been a privilege to read the shoutouts – from long time subscribers, to educators using AllSides in their classrooms, and brand new followers – expressing their belief in our vision for a better informed and empathetic...","published_at":"2025-04-01T19:43:53Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/180977","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/180977"},{"id":180728,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:180728","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"Our Remote Team Meets up in Florida!","preview":"Hello everyone,I wanted to give you a quick inside look at the AllSides Team. Once a year, our fully remote team meets in a giant Airbnb for an intense but casual, collaborative work session. Like last year, we went to sunny Orlando, Florida, which was particularly appreciated by our team members who live in frigid places like Minnesota.What makes AllSides unique, and uniquely positioned to succeed in this chaotic, divisive world, is that we don’t just talk about balance, dialogue and diverse...","published_at":"2025-03-25T16:02:31Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/180728","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/180728"},{"id":180626,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:180626","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"Balanced News Growing and Thriving – for AllSides and our Clients","preview":"Hello everyone, A quick update on what’s happening at AllSides—things are moving fast and forward to new pastures.\u0026nbsp;So called “industry experts” often think that tribalism, bias and extremism is the best way to make money in news media. They are wrong. There is way too much of that nowadays, and multiple international surveys on democracies report that the US news media is the least trusted, or one of the least trusted, in the free world. That lack of trust, and more importantly trustwort...","published_at":"2025-03-20T20:47:25Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/180626","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/180626"},{"id":179379,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:179379","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"What LA Times Got Right — And Wrong — in New AI Bias Ratings","preview":"The Los Angeles Times just took a step in the right direction by revealing the political bias of its opinion pieces in a new feature called Insights.\u0026nbsp;As a news organization, the LA Times has a consistent Lean Left bias, and AllSides 100% supports its efforts to become more balanced and transparent. With more balance, the LA Times can better serve Los Angeles, improve audience trust, and better support democracy.But this small step comes with problems, as many first steps do. While we hop...","published_at":"2025-03-07T17:24:25Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/179379","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/179379"},{"id":179357,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:179357","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"How AllSides Remains Independent","preview":"The discovery that Politico (Lean Left), Associated Press (Left) and potentially other major news outlets have been receiving taxpayer money has resulted in much controversy this week — including concerns about taxpayer money going to biased news sources, and concerns about what truly constitutes independent media.A review by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) found government departments paid Politico $8.2 million between fiscal year 2016 and fiscal year 2025, according to usaspe...","published_at":"2025-02-07T17:44:49Z","author_name":"John Gable","url":"/feed/179357","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/179357"}],"q_and_a":[{"id":279284,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:279284","question":"I know very little about stocks etc. Does the money invested buy shares; and if everything goes well, it there eventually a return on investment?","author_name":"J Randall Short","votes":10,"created_at":"2024-03-21T12:18:49Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-279284","answers":[{"id":279339,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:279339","answer":"Good and important question. When you invest now in AllSides Technologies (or in another similar company on WeFunder), you are investing at a much earlier stage than you would on the stock market, providing the possibility of a much greater return. You know how companies raise money before they are ever on the stock market and you wondered why you didn't get a chance to invest in those companies? WeFunder makes that type of early stage investing available to the general public, and we here at AllSides wanted to bring more of the general public into our company as early as possible – it fits who we are as a company. What's unique here is the early access you get, which isn't typical with other investment types. If we hit our milestones and grow, whether through being acquired, going public via an IPO, or starting to pay dividends, your stake could see significant value. That's the essence of owning part of a company at this stage. But, there's no guarantee any of that will happen. It's the risk and reward of being part of our early journey. Hope that answers your question. I also see that our CFO, Alice, responded to you via email. Responding here too so everyone can see the answer! And check out the answer I gave to Duncan that goes into how shares work a bit more. John","author_name":"John Gable","votes":8,"created_at":"2024-03-21T23:00:24Z"}]},{"id":281015,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:281015","question":"I invested $250, where can i access the investor perks offered for that level?","author_name":"Lawrence Feldman","votes":9,"created_at":"2024-04-10T07:05:43Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-281015","answers":[{"id":281174,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:281174","answer":"Hi Lawrence- Thanks for your investment. We are preparing perk emails for you--and the 246 other early investors! You will get a notification by the end of next week with your perk details.","author_name":"John Gable","votes":7,"created_at":"2024-04-11T16:59:35Z"},{"id":282007,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:282007","answer":"Hi Lawrence- Perk emails have been sent to all investors. If you did not get one, there may be an issue on wefunder's end with the transaction. You can reach out to wefunder at support@wefunder.com or us at alice@allsides.com. Thanks again!","author_name":"John Gable","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-04-22T16:08:58Z"}]},{"id":278787,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:278787","question":"Hi, I've been a follower of AllSides for a while - I really appreciate the model you're putting forward. Could you explain why you're taking the equity crowdfunding route instead a traditional raise with VC's?","author_name":"Mirjam Wit","votes":9,"created_at":"2024-03-15T21:11:39Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-278787","answers":[{"id":278792,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:278792","answer":"Hi Mirjam- thanks for your question and thanks for using AllSides! Bottom line, we don’t want AllSides to be another media or technology company purely owned and controlled by “big media”, “big tech” or “big money.” Today, AllSides is owned by 24 individuals, and we want to make that number grow. We will likely in the future raise money from more traditional sources, but we want to maximize the ownership and control of regular people to help preserve our independence and mission to strengthen our shared democratic society. Thanks for your question!","author_name":"John Gable","votes":12,"created_at":"2024-03-15T21:54:19Z"}]},{"id":279300,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:279300","question":"If I invest $250 as an early investor how many shares of stock / stock options will I have in AllSides?","author_name":"Duncan McGhee","votes":7,"created_at":"2024-03-21T17:49:25Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-279300","answers":[{"id":279340,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:279340","answer":"Hi Duncan- When you invest in the stock market, you know exactly the percentage of the company you are getting (invest $1,000 in a $1 million company, you then own one tenth of one percent of the company). For companies at this early stage like AllSides, no one knows what the value of the company really is. So what you are really buying is a convertible note - a promise that your investment will be converted into shares when a valuation of the company has been determined. In the future, AllSides will likely do a “priced round” working with professional investors, perhaps within the next year or two. Or be acquired by another company. A valuation of AllSides will then be set and your investment will be converted into shares. By investing early on Wefunder, you will get at least 20% more bang for the buck (you get a 20% discount, so get 20% more of the company for your investment). If AllSides is valued to be worth more than the valuation cap, let’s say double (around $60 million), then your shares will be worth double on top of that discount. Well-established companies on the stock market might grow 10-20% a year at best (or go down in value, probably 10-20%). Lower risk, lower reward. Early stage companies like AllSides might grow 10 or 20 times (1000-2000%) over the next few years (or fail, maybe completely). Higher risk, higher reward. And your investment is more likely to have a greater impact on whether that company will succeed or not. This is explained in depth in the Form C located here: https://wefunder.com/allsides/form_c Hopefully what I wrote above is an easier to understand explanation, but to understand it most completely and in depth, check out that link. John","author_name":"John Gable","votes":8,"created_at":"2024-03-21T23:03:06Z"}]},{"id":279070,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:279070","question":"Hi there! I'm a fan of the product and hope (for the sake of democracy) that you guys are able to scale quickly. But those financials... what's the path to profitability?","author_name":"Will Gardner","votes":7,"created_at":"2024-03-19T20:00:40Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-279070","answers":[{"id":279077,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:279077","answer":"Thanks for the question Will! The short answer is, we expect to be profitable by 2026. Even though we made a small operational profit in 2022, we are in most ways a “pre-revenue” company with our biggest revenue drivers coming or just beginning to scale. In 2023, we began to dramatically increase our investment in new tech products. We did this because we saw both the societal need and tremendous financial opportunity to impact the entire nation and world. I think of our strategy to reach profitability, and then extraordinary ROI for investors, in terms of bets we’ve made. Here are the bets that worked: #1- We can use technology to effectively provide trustworthy balance. When we first wrote our patent, it was not clear if that approach would work at scale as a way to combat bias and misinformation. It has worked, we have plenty of third party confirmation that it is working, we have already used it at scale posting hundreds of thousands of articles, and now it is time to scale to a new level. #2- Confirmed that there is an unmet demand for balanced, more trustworthy information. Even though we spent $0 on ads and nearly $0 on marketing, we earned over 79 million views of our content in Feb 2024 and are used in schools in all 50 states. The revolt against one-sided, divisive, click-bait information is real, and the demand for something better and more trustworthy is palatable. #3- Confirmed that we can monetize this demand. We are currently making money through paid subscriptions at AllSides.com and even more money from client deals with schools, media companies and organizations, with one deal worth over $1 million dollars. That is a great start. As we release and monetize even more products this year, we are proving our ability to grow our customer base. Internally, we are very confident we can reach our projections, but it is harder to predict how long it will take. For a good leading indicator, we are already beating our own growth projections in Jan and Feb of 2024 by 16%. Bottom Line: AllSides successfully built a $500K business by 2022, and then we decided to take the leap to the next stage with a heavy additional investment ($1M in 2023, $1-2 more in 2024/25) to put us on the path to over $10 million annual revenue and the capability to have a “needle moving impact” at a critical time in history. This is why we are raising outside funds today – to fund that growth and share the wealth these successes will have. We hope you join us.","author_name":"John Gable","votes":10,"created_at":"2024-03-19T20:51:07Z"}]},{"id":280052,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:280052","question":"While reading the same story from different angles is interesting and important, do you have any concerns that, by selectively juxtaposing 2-3 sources from across the spectrum, your organization may be (falsely) implying that the sources are of equivalent quality and legitimacy?","author_name":"Megan S","votes":6,"created_at":"2024-03-29T03:20:32Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-280052","answers":[{"id":280161,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:280161","answer":"Hi Megan- This is a great question! We generally pull perspectives that are within the Overton window, which basically means we reflect public discussion as it currently is, and avoid elevating extremely fringe perspectives. That does provide a broader view than the average news site because our goal is not to propagandize our own views, but to capture a wide variety of perspectives so people can decide for themselves. We do not endorse views, we only offer them up for consideration. The reader is free to accept or reject them. We avoid deciding which points of view are better or more legitimate than others — that is a dangerous, slippery slope that leads to bias, censorship, and worse. If you look at history within my own lifetime, there are two strong examples of perspectives that were considered illegitimate and were ignored or censored, but then that changed: gay marriage and “winning the Cold War” (which brought the wall down around the Soviet Union, freeing millions), rather than just appeasement and detente. Both of those previously “illegitimate” perspectives became generally accepted views that changed our nation. Going back in time even further, Galileo’s heliocentrism is another example of a fringe view that became mainstream upon further examination. All that is to say — when we trust the reader, they trust us. Being a top-down Ministry of Truth is not the answer, and an anarchic, free-for-all Wild West is not the answer, either. Everyday we focus on being excellent at discerning a range of views to share on our site for thoughtful consideration, and without our endorsement one way or the other. I hope that answers your question! -John","author_name":"John Gable","votes":6,"created_at":"2024-03-31T01:27:30Z"}]},{"id":279164,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:279164","question":"What is an Allsides Champion?","author_name":"Kevin Best","votes":1,"created_at":"2024-03-20T17:32:04Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-279164","answers":[{"id":279216,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:279216","answer":"Hi Kevin- Thanks for your early interest in potentially being an AllSides Champion. We are super excited about what we have been working on for Champions. We just officially launched this week--but more to come very soon. If you click the 'Watch for Updates' button that will ensure that you get the message when we send out all the details on AllSides Champions.","author_name":"John Gable","votes":1,"created_at":"2024-03-20T23:09:50Z"}]},{"id":331062,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:331062","question":"What is the exit plan (acquisition, IPO, merger, etc.) in which investors will be able to see a ROI?","author_name":"bugg logg","votes":0,"created_at":"2026-04-14T23:30:58Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-331062","answers":[{"id":331618,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:331618","answer":"Hi bugg logg, thanks for your question. There are multiple ways to get a return on your investment. WeFunder is not focused on short term (invest now and get a return in a year) investments, but they do enable you to invest in companies like AllSides at a lower purchase point so you can get a much great return down the road. For AllSides Technologies, job one is building the tech, products and company that impact society and generate real revenue and profit. That is our primary focus now. After that, the ways investors will get a return from us or other WeFunder investments include: -Acquisition -IPO -Secondary sale -Dividends/ profit sharing -Company stock buyback. Since our mission and independence are so important to AllSides, the likelihood of a stock buyback or dividends/ profit sharing is greater than for other companies.","author_name":"Alice Sheehan","votes":0,"created_at":"2026-04-21T14:48:00Z"}]},{"id":329584,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:329584","question":"What are the draft/rough numbers for revenue and profit for 2025?","author_name":"Jeff Stone","votes":0,"created_at":"2026-03-31T22:42:57Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-329584","answers":[{"id":330755,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:330755","answer":"Hi Jeff, From 2023-2025 revenue was flat at about a half million. 2025 preliminary revenue was $476K and net loss of -$1.8M. We planned for 3 years of building (2024-2026) to get us to the point where we had enterprise grade products. With AI we were able to get there faster with Balanced News Studio and Roundtables now in the market. We are projecting for 2026 that our revenue will be $2M without significant increase to our cost. Let us know if you have any other questions! Thanks, Alice","author_name":"Alice Sheehan","votes":0,"created_at":"2026-04-10T23:18:48Z"}]},{"id":328370,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:328370","question":"1) is there a patent or intellectual property protection? 2) is there annual recurring revenue? If yes so from where is he comes and in percentages what part of the total revenue is it? 3) in a pervious question i asked, you mentioned that you prefer not a massive ads campaign. So how do you expect to scale? 4) what is the cost of scale globally? (Want to assess probability) To sum up, i wish this project lots of success because it's very important!","author_name":"Etai Lahav","votes":0,"created_at":"2026-03-20T18:58:22Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-328370","answers":[{"id":329075,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:329075","answer":"Thanks for your questions Etai, really appreciate it. 1) is there a patent or intellectual property protection? Yes — AllSides has layered intellectual property protection. AllSides holds patented technology for its balanced news feed and multipartisan bias rating methodology. (https://www.allsides.com/about/media-bias-rating-methods) These patents protect the core systems that make AllSides difficult to replicate — not just the data itself, but the processes by which bias is identified, rated, and applied at scale. 2) is there annual recurring revenue? If yes so from where is he comes and in percentages what part of the total revenue is it? In 2025 83% of revenue was recurring from the prior year– 58% from consumer memberships and 42% from clients. 3) in a previous question i asked, you mentioned that you prefer not a massive ads campaign. So how do you expect to scale? AllSides is scaling in three main ways: B2B Partnerships with mission-aligned organizations: We license our technology, bias ratings, and balanced news tools to media companies, schools, nonprofits, government institutions and enterprises. These are high-value, recurring relationships that have the additional benefit of equally excellent referrals. Organic reach through trust and credibility: The AllSides Media Bias Chart has earned tens of millions impressions without paid promotion – it spreads because people trust it and share it. This kind of organic distribution is more durable than paid acquisition. AllSides for Schools is creating lifelong users: Educators and librarians started using AllSides in the classroom, and were looking for more resources to teach media and news literacy, so in 2012 AllSides started an initiative to support educators. Now during the academic year, about ⅓ of the traffic on allsides.com comes from educators and students. Since, AllSides has seen several interns and staff members that first learned about AllSides in a classroom setting. 4) what is the cost of scale globally? (Want to assess probability) The global cost of scaling is low compared to most tech companies. AllSides’ core assets are methodology and technology – not physical infrastructure or large content teams. Once the tools are built, the cost of extending them to a new partner, market, or language is a fraction of what it costs to build from scratch. We are not shipping physical goods, staffing newsrooms in every city, or running expensive data centers at scale. Here are a few reasons our global scaling costs are low: -Licensable technology. Our patented tools and ratings systems can be white-labeled and deployed by partners worldwide without significant incremental cost to us. The partner bears the distribution cost; we provide the infrastructure. -Data that improves with scale. Our bias ratings get more valuable as more people and organizations use and contribute to them — a classic network effect that actually reduces cost per unit of value over time. -No content creation cost at scale. Unlike traditional media companies, AllSides does not create the news — we rate, organize, and contextualize it. That means we can expand topic coverage and geography without hiring large editorial teams. -Digital distribution. Our products are delivered digitally, meaning a new customer internationally costs little more than one in Denver. Last year we secured our first international bias audit client. While this was earlier than we forecasted on our roadmap, we were pleased to see an early signal for the need for something like AllSides outside of the US. Appreciate the questions, keep them coming!","author_name":"Alice Sheehan","votes":0,"created_at":"2026-03-26T14:53:52Z"}]},{"id":307370,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:307370","question":"Ho, i love the idea and highly hopes it will work. Few questions: 1. What is the business model? 2. Do you expect to expand to other countries news or put money on ads massively campaign? 3. In how many years do you expecting an exit and of acquisition or IPO and why? Thank you very much!","author_name":"Etai Lahav","votes":0,"created_at":"2025-05-02T14:28:55Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-307370","answers":[{"id":307904,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:307904","answer":"Hi Etai- Thanks for your support and questions. Let’s get right to it. 1. Business Model. We make money from both client services and user subscriptions. This diversity of revenue streams is an advantage for us, providing more revenue for the same core technologies as well as more stability and opportunity for break-out growth. We make over half of our revenue from services – which will become much more self-evident within the next two weeks when we make an important update to our website. Note that on the consumer side, I did not mention advertising. We make less than 5% of our revenue from online ads, which is intentionally small since they reward companies for bad behavior, aka they reward you for click-bait and bias. That threatens our mission and is one of the chief drivers behind the decline in news quality, so we quite deliberately built a different kind of business model. 2. Expansion. We already work internationally, for example in Germany and Poland with a Fortune 500 media company, and will continue to grow internationally. As for using a large advertising campaign to grow our audience, we have been reluctant to “buy traffic” as many news companies do which makes them spike but then they falter later. But we have been running some tests. While our retention rate is much higher than the industry which leads to a better ROI on ads than other media companies, we have had great success so far with our focus on partners, SEO, social media, schools and other kinds of outreach. If and how much we will use paid advertising to grow our audience will be determined by the ROI we earn in tests as compared to other options, and on the amount of outside investment we get to grow more rapidly. 3. Years until exit or acquisition or IPO. That is a tricky question. We already had one verbal offer for an acquisition that we passed up over two years ago. Though I think our success in revenue, audience and technology may lead to some more acquisition interest this year or next, we have our eyes on the long game with much greater returns and impact to society. So I suspect the soonest something like that might happen realistically is in the next 4 to 6 years after we have had a chance to release and expand more of our tech and bring it to more markets domestically and internationally. At the moment, we are focused on building great services, great experiences, and a great company, and the rest will follow. Your investment and support is an important part of our path to success. Thanks for joining us on this exciting journey!","author_name":"John Gable","votes":1,"created_at":"2025-05-09T20:06:09Z"}]},{"id":300377,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:300377","question":"Is there an annual fee for access to the content?","author_name":"John Dixon","votes":0,"created_at":"2025-01-17T05:47:23Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-300377","answers":[{"id":300611,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:300611","answer":"Hi John- Thank you for this question. Annual memberships range from $49-$149/year. You can become a sustaining member and read through the benefits by going to allsides.com/join. Investors at the $250 level or above receive a sustaining membership for a year.","author_name":"John Gable","votes":0,"created_at":"2025-01-22T19:27:34Z"}]},{"id":299379,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:299379","question":"Hello, I invested last round, because I believe in the mission. With that being said, the last raise was relatively small and your current financials don't show much runway. With news media (both paid and advising) on the decline, how do you plan to grow revenue? Also, what's the plan for saying afloat until you can assure financial viability?","author_name":"LD Freeman","votes":0,"created_at":"2025-01-03T04:06:02Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-299379","answers":[{"id":299671,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:299671","answer":"Thanks for your support, LD. AllSides is fortunate in that we have access to enough capital via loans to cover projected losses through at least the end of 2025. With that said, we started a new raise on wefunder because 1) we were surprised by the success of the first raise, 2) some folks reached out that didn't get to invest in the first round, and 3) we believe raising investment funds through crowdfunding, as opposed to private equity or VC, is mission aligned because it builds a company based on diverse ownership. To answer your revenue question, we are a technology company, not a news company. Our purpose is to provide people with solutions that free them from filter bubbles and help them better understand the world and each other. Our revenue grew 18% in 2024 based on preliminary year-end numbers and we are shooting for another \u0026gt;22% growth in 2025 through a combination of subscriptions and services revenue. We are enhancing our current tech stack and planning some major releases and upgrades in 2025. You can expect more communication from us in the next couple months detailing some of the exciting things we are working on!","author_name":"John Gable","votes":0,"created_at":"2025-01-07T23:24:24Z"}]},{"id":294987,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:294987","question":"Hi, I want to invest in AllSides. My concern is with the confusion I have reading “Public Launch on Nov 1 @9AM” on your site. Is this an IPO that is taking place, or a “more public” crowdfunding campaign?","author_name":"Jack Macaulay","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-10-24T16:55:05Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-294987","answers":[{"id":295684,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:295684","answer":"Hi Jack- Thanks for your interest in supporting AllSides. Due to technical issues we had to push the launch date out to Dec. 1. To answer your question, the \"public launch\" means that the AllSides raise will be more widely visible on the wefunder platform and publicized in the emails they send out. In the \"Friends Invest First\" phase folks can only find the page if they receive the link through a communication from AllSides. It's a good opportunity to make sure to get the Early Bird Bonus before the raise is more widely shared.","author_name":"John Gable","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-11-04T15:03:46Z"}]},{"id":294983,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:294983","question":"How will you avoid the normalization of the irrational? Address the disinformation campaign without feeding it? Avoid postmodernist bothism and relativism, false equivalency and malignant accommodation?","author_name":"Dwight Gaudet","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-10-24T16:40:10Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-294983","answers":[{"id":295691,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:295691","answer":"Hi Dwight- Thanks for your interest in AllSides. Great questions. In short, AllSides gives readers the opportunity to discover the facts on their own and find the truth for themselves. We will always point out when a majority of journalists agree something is untrue; but journalists, or any majority group, are not infallible themselves. So, overall, we allow users to get all the information they need to determine for themselves what’s true and false. The best friend of dis/misinformation is censorship. It causes falsehoods to spread wider, and even lends false claims credibility, because it causes people to have an emotional reaction — they feel they are being manipulated by being censored, and then believe the information is real. For this reason, AllSides does not believe in censorship (except in extreme cases, such as explicit calls to violence) and we won’t hide controversial claims. You might see us linking to controversial source material so people can view it without the media spin and filter. Some argue this could be a problem if dis/misinformation is spreading. But the AllSides approach addresses this. Our system allows media and perspectives from across the political spectrum to act as a check on each other, so lies and misleading claims will ultimately reveal themselves in the back and forth between news media on different sides of the issue. Additionally, AllSides reflects the news media as it is. While we do editorially emphasize some stories more than others and have our own biases, if something is being widely discussed, it will generally appear on our site so that people can get the information they need to decide for themselves. When we trust the reader — instead of censoring, employing spin and bias, or telling them what to think — the reader trusts us. We are not here to tell the world what to think. We want to empower people to think for themselves by giving them the full gamut of information. The answer to disinformation, irrationality, false equivalency, etc. is not to allow one single authority or algorithm to decide what everyone should think. Technology should empower us with tools to know more, understand more, and understand each other — NOT become a Ministry of Truth.","author_name":"John Gable","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-11-04T17:32:14Z"}]},{"id":292424,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:292424","question":"Hi John, Alice and the rest of the AllSides team. I really enjoy your work but am concerned about the SAFEs never converting to equity. If I understand it correctly, you're in essence doing another investment round but in a way that doesn't convert the SAFEs from the first round into equity. Is that correct?","author_name":"Tolga Keskinoglu","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-09-17T07:32:27Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-292424","answers":[{"id":292502,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:292502","answer":"Hi Tolga- Thank you for your support and for raising your concerns about the SAFEs. We're indeed doing another round with SAFEs as they provide flexibility at this early stage of our growth. Our focus right now is solely on building AllSides and furthering our mission. While we can't make any promises about future exits or IPOs, we believe early supporters like you are crucial to our success and are positioned to benefit most if we succeed. We're seeking investors who understand the risks of early-stage investing and believe in our long-term vision. Your trust means a lot to us, and we're committed to making AllSides the best it can be.","author_name":"Alice Sheehan","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-09-18T00:38:40Z"}]},{"id":283677,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:283677","question":"I'm new to AllSides and love the philosophy of this project. I might be missing something so I'd love some clarification. I'm confused about how you use the word 'bias'. By one definition, a 'bias' (1) is a less than objective or holistic viewpoint, and in another, (2) it is simply a leaning away from some point defined to be 0 (in this context, the political center). In your editorial philosophy, you express that you think everybody is biased, in which case you're using the first definition above. But in other places, for example in one of your updates here, you view AllSides having \"reduced the bias\" of a certain news outlet as having moved it toward the center. In this case, are you using the second definition of 'bias' or the first? A reader would naturally infer that you're using it in the first sense since you clearly regard this achievement as laudable. If you indeed use it in the first sense, then it contradicts with your own editorial philosophy, according to which the center is biased too. If you use it in the second sense, you need to explicitly flag when you're switching usages for the sake of clarity. But moreover, if you used it in the second sense, then I'm confused as to why making a left-leaning outlet a center outlet is laudable. I'd love to hear your thoughts and get clarity on this.","author_name":"AJ Abdujabborov","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-05-15T20:03:38Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-283677","answers":[{"id":283745,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:283745","answer":"Hi Aj- This is a great question! You can check out this blog describing our definitions of media bias and general bias: https://www.allsides.com/blog/what-media-bias The definitions are as follows: Bias — noun. a tendency, trend, preference, partiality, or inclination. Media Bias — noun. The tendency of news media to report in a way that reinforces a viewpoint, worldview, preference, political ideology, corporate or financial interests, moral framework, or policy inclination, instead of reporting in an objective way (simply describing the facts). A media outlet may reveal bias in how it reports specific news stories or which stories they choose to cover, ie., deem more important than others to cover or emphasize. We do believe that bias is unavoidable/inevitable, because it’s impossible to capture every single perspective in a single piece or even in a single media outlet. A news article/outlet has limitations of space, and a journalist cannot feasibly include every single perspective on an issue, of which there may be infinite iterations. However, they can strive for balance and/or objectivity — this is what we mean when we say we help some newsrooms to “reduce bias.” Journalists can learn to write in ways that do not show strong preference for a worldview, ideology, viewpoint, etc. and that fairly offer a number of perspectives, do not sensationalize or employ slant, etc. For newsrooms that don’t want to be partisan, they can absolutely reduce bias by learning to take an even-handed approach. We frequently say that media bias isn’t necessarily a bad thing — we think it’s good and even healthy for there to be liberal and conservative media outlets in a news landscape, so that people can get a breadth of perspectives. However, the “disappearing middle” is a problem, so for outlets that don’t want to be seen as partisan, yes, moving toward the Center is laudable, if not necessarily a marker of perfection. I hope that answers your question! - John","author_name":"John Gable","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-05-16T21:43:05Z"}]},{"id":282606,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:282606","question":"I have tried to invest (multiple times) in this incredible company. However, where I am from (Ontario) I am not allowed to invest using this platform. I have tried different loopholes but to no avail. Is there any way we can sort this out? I do not want to miss out on this one. Not at all.","author_name":"Charlie Thompson-Wood","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-04-29T13:51:15Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-282606","answers":[{"id":282730,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:282730","answer":"Thanks for your support, Charlie. Can you please email AllSides CFO, Alice Sheehan, at alice@allsides.com? She can discuss options with you. We also reached out to wefunder on your behalf to see if there is anything they can do for you.","author_name":"John Gable","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-04-30T15:55:55Z"},{"id":282906,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:282906","answer":"Hi Charlie- Wefunder got back to me and it turns out residents of Ontario are not allowed to invest on wefunder per their request (more info at https://help.wefunder.com/investing/who-can-invest?from_search=146235530). If you want to reach out to me we may be able to explore other options for you. My email is alice@allsides.com. Thank you!","author_name":"Alice Sheehan","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-05-02T19:59:06Z"}]},{"id":280322,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:280322","question":"I cancelled an online investment. How is it my checking account is showing a payment?","author_name":"Dominic M DiSabatino","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-04-02T13:33:40Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-280322","answers":[{"id":280452,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:280452","answer":"Hi Dominic- We reached out to Wefunder on your behalf yesterday. They handle all of the payment transactions. They should be in touch with you today.","author_name":"John Gable","votes":1,"created_at":"2024-04-03T18:26:18Z"}]},{"id":280269,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:280269","question":"Hi there, a) What is your most recent monthly burn rate? b) What is your most recent monthly cash on hand? c) Are you raising a parallel angel or VC round simultaneously? If yes, who is investing in this round?","author_name":"Teddy Lyons","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-04-01T23:11:35Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-280269","answers":[{"id":280453,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:280453","answer":"Thanks for the question, Teddy. All we can share is what is publicly disclosed in the Form C, however the 2023 review will be posted here very soon. I can share that we are forecasting about a 9 month runway right now. At this time we are not raising a formal parallel VC/Angel round, though we are actively talking to interested investors outside of wefunder.","author_name":"Alice Sheehan","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-04-03T18:29:12Z"}]},{"id":279591,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:279591","question":"When will 2023 financials be made available?","author_name":"Joshua Williams","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-03-25T13:39:12Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-279591","answers":[{"id":279636,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:279636","answer":"Hi Joshua- 2023 financials are currently being reviewed by a CPA firm and we will have those available soon.","author_name":"John Gable","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-03-25T22:30:35Z"}]},{"id":279364,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:279364","question":"Newsweek in the middle?","author_name":"Dave Stennes","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-03-22T01:37:29Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-279364","answers":[{"id":279473,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:279473","answer":"Hi Dave! At the moment, yes Newsweek is rated Center, and that is a major change from just a few years ago. Media outlets are constantly undergoing review by AllSides, and bias can change over time. In Newsweek’s case, new management took over Newsweek and made radical changes with the goal of making the organization less biased and more balanced. But AllSides doesn’t assign ratings based on ownership, staff changes, or what we think that means – just by the content they create. Nor do they reflect the judgment of a secret panel or individual at AllSides. Our ratings are carefully designed to reflect the average judgment of all Americans, as if everyone had the opportunity to view and rate the content themselves without knowing the source. Media outlets undergo a rigorous, multipartisan review process that combines the input of both experts and everyday Americans across the political spectrum. In our last blind bias analysis of Newsweek, 964 Americans from across the political spectrum rated Newsweek Center on average. Our expert review panel also rated Newsweek Center, taking into account a very balanced Opinion page; however, the panel did note that Newsweek chose more Lean Left than Lean Right story choices. These reviews were completed in 2022 and 2023. It may be time for further review. Also, our Blind Bias Survey results for Newsweek were a bit odd compared to what we normally see. On average, liberals perceived Newsweek as Lean Right, while people in the center and on the right perceived Newsweek as Center. People on the right saw more leftward bias in this outlet than people in the center. Some news outlets are easier to rate than others, and bias is always in the eye of the beholder. We frequently see that for outlets liberals perceive as Center, conservatives will often see it as Lean Left, for example. Our final bias ratings represent the average view of Americans. Also, Center doesn’t mean better, and individual articles may lean left or right while the choice of articles overall may be balanced. A Center outlet can still show bias and miss important perspectives. For a few news outlets that have undergone very in depth analysis and scored extremely well, AllSides will award them the distinction of being Balance Certified™. These proud few are substantially free from bias or show a particularly strong balance of perspectives. That said, we expect and welcome disagreement. Ultimately, bias is subjective, there is no single correct answer. Everyone can vote on our bias ratings, indicating whether or not they agree with it. If we see a lot of Americans disagreeing, we don’t change the rating outright, but it can trigger deeper review of that news outlet. In addition, anyone can sign up to participate in AllSides Blind Bias Surveys here: https://www.allsides.com/blind-bias-survey -John PS- If you want to learn more, check out these links: What does Center bias rating mean? https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/center Vote on media bias ratings here: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/ratings Newsweek Blind Bias Survey results: https://www.allsides.com/news-source/newsweek#Feb2022 Newsweek Editorial Review results: https://www.allsides.com/news-source/newsweek#May2023EdRev","author_name":"John Gable","votes":6,"created_at":"2024-03-22T22:03:37Z"}]},{"id":279311,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:279311","question":"The appendix links on the Form-C shared here: https://wefunder.com/allsides/form_c don't appear to work correctly. Can someone update the links or can the SPV Agreement, the SAFE document and the Business Description and Plan be shared another way?","author_name":"Michael Bloom","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-03-21T18:48:16Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/allsides#question-279311","answers":[{"id":279341,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:279341","answer":"I see what you mean, Michael. We can’t change anything on the Form C page. I’ve reached out to wefunder and will get back to you ASAP. Thanks","author_name":"Alice Sheehan","votes":1,"created_at":"2024-03-21T23:08:22Z"}]}],"faq":[{"question":"Hi, I've been a follower of AllSides for a while - I really appreciate the model you're putting forward. Could you explain why you're taking the equity crowdfunding route instead a traditional raise with VC's?","answer":"Hi Mirjam- thanks for your question and thanks for using AllSides! Bottom line, we don’t want AllSides to be another media or technology company purely owned and controlled by “big media”, “big tech” or “big money.” Today, AllSides is owned by 24 individuals, and we want to make that number grow. We will likely in the future raise money from more traditional sources, but we want to maximize the ownership and control of regular people to help preserve our independence and mission to strengthen..."},{"question":"Hi there! I'm a fan of the product and hope (for the sake of democracy) that you guys are able to scale quickly. But those financials... what's the path to profitability?","answer":"Thanks for the question Will! The short answer is, we expect to be profitable by 2026. Even though we made a small operational profit in 2022, we are in most ways a “pre-revenue” company with our biggest revenue drivers coming or just beginning to scale. In 2023, we began to dramatically increase our investment in new tech products. We did this because we saw both the societal need and tremendous financial opportunity to impact the entire nation and world. I think of our strategy to reach pro..."},{"question":"What is an Allsides Champion?","answer":"Hi Kevin- Thanks for your early interest in potentially being an AllSides Champion. We are super excited about what we have been working on for Champions. We just officially launched this week--but more to come very soon. If you click the 'Watch for Updates' button that will ensure that you get the message when we send out all the details on AllSides Champions."},{"question":"I know very little about stocks etc. Does the money invested buy shares; and if everything goes well, it there eventually a return on investment?","answer":"Good and important question. When you invest now in AllSides Technologies (or in another similar company on WeFunder), you are investing at a much earlier stage than you would on the stock market, providing the possibility of a much greater return. You know how companies raise money before they are ever on the stock market and you wondered why you didn't get a chance to invest in those companies? WeFunder makes that type of early stage investing available to the general public, and we here at..."},{"question":"If I invest $250 as an early investor how many shares of stock / stock options will I have in AllSides?","answer":"Hi Duncan- When you invest in the stock market, you know exactly the percentage of the company you are getting (invest $1,000 in a $1 million company, you then own one tenth of one percent of the company). For companies at this early stage like AllSides, no one knows what the value of the company really is. So what you are really buying is a convertible note - a promise that your investment will be converted into shares when a valuation of the company has been determined. In the future, AllSi..."}]}}}