Bias toward fairness happens when we try to present two sides to a story in order to give the impression of being fair in the telling.

What is wrong with this?

The problem here is that we let the optics of equity inform the facts of the story. Some stories have only one side, some have more than two. When we don’t tell the facts as they are, we are not delivering the truth, but rather a version of it that would look and sound more agreeable.

And anything that manipulates the truth is always dangerous.