False balance
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false-balance-205-16220724
title:
False balance
text:
False balance, known colloquially as bothsidesism, is a media bias in which journalists present an issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints than the evidence supports. Journalists may present evidence and arguments out of proportion to the actual evidence for each side, or may omit information that would establish one side's claims as baseless. False balance has been cited as a cause of misinformation. False balance is a bias which usually stems from an attempt to avoid bias and
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Media bias on opposing viewpoints
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance
date created:
2005-09-21T02:46:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T18:47:02Z
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