Kimberly Adams

Kimberly Adams is Marketplace’s senior Washington correspondent and the co-host of the Marketplace podcast, “Make Me Smart.” She regularly hosts other Marketplace programs, and reports from the nation's capital on the way politics, technology, and economics show up in our everyday lives. Her reporting focuses on empowering listeners with the tools they need to more deeply engage with society and our democracy. Adams is also the host and editor of APM’s "Call to Mind", a series of programs airing on public radio stations nationwide aimed at changing the national conversation about mental health. Previously, Kimberly was a foreign correspondent based in Cairo, Egypt, reporting on the political, social and economic upheaval following the Arab Spring for news organizations around the world.

Biography:  https://www.marketplace.org/author/kimberly-adams/

58%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

85%

Examples:

  • Other companies are also trying to come up with cookie replacements of their own.
  • Privacy advocates have complained that cookies are a privacy nightmare
  • That is changing the way everybody does business online and not just businesses. The deprecation of the third-party cookie in 2024, is really poised to shake things up.
  • The web has been fueled by ads and those ads have been finding their way to relevant users via cookies

Conflicts of Interest

50%

Examples:

  • Other companies are also trying to come up with cookie replacements of their own.
  • Privacy advocates have complained that cookies are a privacy nightmare
  • That is changing the way everybody does business online and not just businesses. The deprecation of the third-party cookie in 2024, is really poised to shake things up.

Contradictions

100%

Examples:

  • Google's project only affects tracking across sites and does not mention how this change will affect advertisers or consumers.
  • The change may also impact consumers' privacy rights but the article fails to mention this
  • Third-party cookies are a privacy nightmare without providing any context or explanation as to why they are considered so. This statement is deceptive because it implies that first-party cookies do not collect personal information, which is not true.

Deceptions

30%

Examples:

  • Google's project only affects tracking across sites and does not mention how this change will affect advertisers or consumers.
  • The article claims that third-party cookies are a privacy nightmare without providing any context or explanation as to why they are considered so. This statement is deceptive because it implies that first-party cookies do not collect personal information, which is not true.
  • The change may also impact consumers' privacy rights but the article fails to mention this

Recent Articles

Google Kills Cookies for One Percent of Chrome Users Globally on January 4th

Google Kills Cookies for One Percent of Chrome Users Globally on January 4th

Broke On: Friday, 05 January 2024 Google has started disabling third-party cookies for one percent of Chrome users, which is about 30 million people. The company announced that it will kick things off by disabling cookies for a random one percent of Chrome users globally on January 4.