About Confer

In today’s rapidly evolving media landscape, navigating through news can feel overwhelming, frustrating, and exhausting. Mainstream news outlets often face criticism for biases, hidden agendas, sensationalist reporting, and clickbait, all of which undermine trust and transparency. This creates significant barriers for individuals who simply want concise, reliable and balanced insights into critical topics and events.

Confer was created in direct response to these challenges. Our mission is simple but powerful: to offer Australians a genuinely neutral, concise and transparent news resource—empowering everyone to confidently navigate current events, without the noise or manipulation.

Understanding the Problem

Mainstream News Bias and Trust Erosion
Far too often, existing news outlets lean towards particular ideological or political perspectives, prioritising certain narratives that align with specific interests rather than providing balanced, comprehensive coverage. This erosion of objectivity damages public trust, leaving readers uncertain about whether the focus is information or influence.

Shallow Clickbait Drives Engagement, Not Understanding
Clickbait, with its emphasis on sensational headlines and superficial content, may catch attention—but it rarely provides a deeper understanding of issues. Instead, readers face a constant barrage of sensationalism, misinformation, and partial truths, sacrificing meaningful insights for quick views.

Information Overload in Our Busy World
Many Australians lead busy, demanding lives—yet they still desire reliable, easily digestible news. Today’s readers need timely, straightforward summaries that cut through editorialising, providing clear and concise information without compromising accuracy.

Confer’s Approach

Neutral Summarisation
We strip out emotive influence and editorial slant, focusing solely on factual accuracy. Confer combines advanced AI-driven summarisation tools with rigorous human oversight—ensuring neutrality, accuracy, and transparency in every summary.

Multi-Perspective Reporting
Confer acknowledges the complexity and nuance behind every headline. Instead of pushing a single narrative, we explicitly offer clearly-labelled multi-perspective content that provides visibility into mainstream and alternative viewpoints, empowering our audience to delve deeper when interested or form their own balanced conclusions.

Transparent and Accessible Insights
We believe transparency builds trust. Every summary at Confer offers readers direct pathways to original reporting and fact-checking resources. This provides scalable depth—users can choose to quickly digest essential information or explore further at their convenience and discretion.

Confer is more than just another news platform—it is a renewed commitment to integrity, transparency, and balance in reporting. Together, we are reclaiming trust, empowering informed discourse, and shaping a better-informed community, one concise and unbiased summary at a time.

Get in Touch

For any questions & suggestions: rod@confer.com.au