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The Cool Down
U.S. center-left (climate and clean-energy advocacy, consumer-lifestyle focus)
The Cool Down is a privately held, venture-backed climate and lifestyle site founded in 2022 by former Bleacher Report and Disney executives. It promotes clean energy, efficiency and sustainable consumer products, and earns money largely from affiliate commerce. It rarely covers the Trump administration directly. When it does, its tone leans critical of rollbacks to clean-energy policy, though this is a judgment based on limited review.
Owned byPrivately held, venture-backed U.S. company founded in 2022 by Dave Finocchio (co-founder and longtime CEO of Bleacher Report) and Anna Robertson (former Disney, ABC and Yahoo executive). It is not owned by a larger media group. Investors include Upfront Ventures, Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Jetstream, Swingbridge and Niche Capital, plus angel investors such as Bill Simmons.
LeaningU.S. center-left (climate and clean-energy advocacy, consumer-lifestyle focus)
On the administrationmostly neutral
5.5average bias score across 2 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun