# AllSides

Understanding for businesses and consumers – from news to corporate comms and research.

- Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/allsides
- Entity ID: wefunder:company:147656
- Last updated: 2026-06-05T05:01:05Z
- Generated at: 2026-06-06T02:50:29Z

## Quick facts
- Proven success in news; expanding to $10B qualitative research & corporate comms markets.
- Clients: Fortune 100 (4th year), Newsweek, Carnegie Corp; six-figure deals in late stages.
- 80MM+ monthly views peak; 2.5MM avg unique visitors/month; 65,000+ newsletter subscribers.
- Experienced leadership; recently added 2 PhDs including Head of AI in cognitive bias.
- Patented tech, live dialogue & 10+ years of data provide unmatched insights for clients & LLMs.
- Loyal, mission-driven users; 45% direct traffic growth from 2025 to 2026.
- Bloomberg-style model: >90% revenue from clients; news drives credibility & outreach.
- Revenue growth: Jan/Feb 2026 earned >60% of 2025 revenue, will soon close early bird investor round.

## Active fundraises
- wefunder:fundraise:121998: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)
- wefunder:fundraise:102938: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)
- wefunder:fundraise:121997: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)
- wefunder:fundraise:102937: 4(a)(6) successful (USD)

## Story
This is your last chance to invest at early investor terms — $33M cap, 15% discount. 678+ investors are already in.We spent 2025 building. 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. America's 250th anniversary makes 2026 the peak moment for what we do — and we're ready to sell into it.

## FAQ
1. **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?**
   - 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...
2. **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?**
   - 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...
3. **What is an Allsides Champion?**
   - 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.
4. **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?**
   - 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...
5. **If I invest $250 as an early investor how many shares of stock / stock options will I have in AllSides?**
   - 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...

## Team
- John Gable (CEO, Board of Directors Chair)
- Scott McDonald (CTO, Board of Directors)
- Joan Blades (Board of Directors)
- Alice Sheehan (COO / CFO)

## Recent posts
- Invest tonight by 11:59 PM EDT - last chance for early bird terms. (2026-04-23T13:00:00Z)
- Quick update: Just closed a major deal (2026-04-23T00:00:00Z)
- When we started (2026-04-22T20:32:55Z)
- Big Week for Bias — and Two Days Left at Wefunder (2026-04-21T20:32:58Z)
- Balanced News Studio opens new markets before round closes (2026-04-14T14:19:07Z)
- A major win from Carnegie (2026-04-09T13:12:36Z)
- We're nominated for our first Webby Award - for AllSides Roundtables! (2026-04-07T13:00:00Z)
- AllSides is Entering a New Phase of Growth (2026-03-31T15:26:26Z)
- AllSides ending investment round, entering new phase (2026-03-27T13:17:17Z)
- Inside AllSides’ 2026 Strategy Retreat (2026-03-04T18:23:34Z)
- 2025 was a defining year for AllSides (2026-01-09T13:50:06Z)
- Newsweek and AllSides to host a National Roundtable + new tech (2025-10-23T23:07:56Z)
- We must act and act wisely. (2025-09-17T15:05:26Z)
- Hatred is easy. Building is hard. (2025-08-14T21:46:27Z)
- Our biggest impact and opportunities ahead (2025-06-27T19:32:30Z)

## Q&A
- Q: 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?
  - A: 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
- Q: I invested $250, where can i access the investor perks offered for that level?
  - A: 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.
  - A: 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!
- Q: 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?
  - A: 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!
- Q: If I invest $250 as an early investor how many shares of stock / stock options will I have in AllSides?
  - A: 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
- Q: 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?
  - A: 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.
- Q: 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?
  - A: 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
- Q: What is an Allsides Champion?
  - A: 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.
- Q: What is the exit plan (acquisition, IPO, merger, etc.) in which investors will be able to see a ROI?
  - A: 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.
- Q: What are the draft/rough numbers for revenue and profit for 2025?
  - A: 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
- Q: 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!
  - A: 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!
- Q: 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!
  - A: 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!
- Q: Is there an annual fee for access to the content?
  - A: 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.
- Q: 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?
  - A: 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 >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!
- Q: 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?
  - A: 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.
- Q: 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?
  - A: 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.