In this episode of Signal & Noise, Vanessa Otero, Founder and CEO of Ad Fontes Media and creator of the Media Bias Chart, joins Rio Longacre and Brett House to explore trust, misinformation, media fragmentation, and the future of journalism. The conversation examines social media algorithms, AI-generated content, local news decline, brand safety, CTV advertising, and whether objective journalism can survive in today’s polarized information ecosystem.