How Semblen is different from Ground News
Ground News shows you who covered a story. Semblen reads the article itself: the wording, the claims it makes, the sources it quoted and its framing.
They answer different questions, and you can use both. Ground News gathers the articles about one event and shows how coverage is spread across outlets it rates by political lean. Semblen takes the one article you're reading and shows how it was built.
No left/right labels
Semblen puts no left/right label on any analysis. A rating of an outlet can't tell you about the article in front of you. Ground News says the same of its own bias ratings: “This rating does not measure the bias of specific news articles.”1
When Semblen compares coverage of a story, it groups outlets by kind: US, international, wire services, government sources and state media. It quotes the angle each outlet took in its own words, so you see what differs, not a score.
Side by side, as of November 2026
| Ground News | Semblen | |
|---|---|---|
| What it looks at | A story across many outlets. It says it processes “nearly 60,000 articles” a day from “over 50,000 sources”.2 | The article, video or text you give it, paragraph by paragraph. |
| Ratings | A bias rating for each outlet, on a 7-point scale from Far Left to Far Right, averaged from AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check.1 | No ratings of outlets. The rhetorical techniques in the article's wording are marked, each named and quoted, so you can judge them. |
| Accuracy | A factuality rating for each outlet, on 5 levels, averaged from Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check.1 | Each factual claim in the article checked against named sources, with what they say and links (Pro). |
| One-sided coverage | Blindspot: stories “disproportionately covered by one side”.3 | How other outlets covered the same story, and which points each one left out (Pro). |
| Free | Story pages with the list of articles, coverage by lean and an AI summary. Factuality and ownership need a paid plan.4 | 2 analyses a day: a three-point summary, the wording marked, and the claims found. |
| Paid | Vantage, $99.99 a year on the web.5 | Pro, from $5 a month billed yearly ($60 a year). |
| Trial | 7 days of Vantage, then $99.99 a year.6 | 7 days of Pro, no card. The trial just ends; there's nothing to cancel. |
What Semblen does with one article
- Sums it up in three points.
- Marks the wording: each rhetorical technique, such as loaded language or name calling, named and quoted, with why it counts. Language inside a quotation is credited to whoever said it.
- Lists the factual claims, and with Pro checks each one against named sources: fact-checkers, official data and the public record.
- Reads the whole article (Pro's Deep analysis): a headline that goes further than the story, opinion presented as news, unnamed sources, and who was heard and who wasn't.
- Shows how other outlets covered it (Pro): the angles each one took, in its own words.
What Ground News does that Semblen doesn't
Try Semblen on an article you're reading
2 analyses a day are free, with no account. For claim checks, the Deep analysis and other outlets' angles, start a free Pro trial: 7 days, no card.
Sources
Facts about Ground News are from its own public pages, read on November 5, 2026. If something has changed, tell us at [email protected] and we'll correct it.
- Ground News, Rating system.
- Ground News, About.
- Ground News, Blindspot.
- Ground News, an example story page.
- Ground News, Subscribe.
- Ground News, Free trial.
Ground News is a product of Snapwise Inc. Semblen is independent and not affiliated with Ground News.