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My grandmother lived in fear of carjackings. The news channels repeated them so often that it seemed like they were happening on every corner, every hour. But she didn’t have a car. Or a garage. Her fear didn’t come from reality — it came from what the media showed her every day.

That anecdote captures something that happens to all of us. What we know about the world doesn’t come from what we experience, but from what someone decided to tell us. And the media doesn’t show the world as it is: they choose which stories to tell, which to ignore, and from which angle to present them. Every newspaper, every channel, has its own filter. And we, without realizing it, end up seeing only one piece of the puzzle.

This site was born from a simple idea: what if we compare what left-wing, centrist, and right-wing outlets say about the same events? Not to declare who is right, but to see what each one leaves out. Those gaps — the “blindspots” — are the stories that millions of people never see, simply because they read one newspaper and not another.

There are no ads here, no algorithms deciding what to show you, and no need to click through three pop-ups before reading a story. Just an honest summary, written plainly, so that anyone — with or without a garage — can find out what is really going on.

— Francisco