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Impossible. Your own biases consciously or sub-consciously would ultimately skew the curation. Facebook ran into this issue a little while ago with trending to

Impossible. Your own biases consciously or sub-consciously would ultimately skew the curation. Facebook ran into this issue a little while ago with trending topics. If they did it manually, it was skewed. If they did in algorithmically, it was skewed based on whoever wrote the algorithm. The only possible way that I could see this working is if you had 3 columns: Left-wing, right-wing, and relatively unbiased (all news articles are biased simply because editors and news agencies are biased). Within those three columns, you place news articles in the left-wing or right-wing columns, and allow for voting (left, right, unbiased). However, this would also require you to have a large group from both sides voting in order to function properly. Good luck!

awgme 10y ago
That was what we had in mind! I guess instead of saying we're trying to be "less biased", we should be focusing on "what both left and right-wing leaning news are saying", as long as the information is correct.
- brudgers 10y ago
  Curious what would be considered left leaning and right leaning and whether or not an "equal time" approach might reflect a bias.
  - codeddesign 10y ago
    Correct...The only way around this that I see would be to allow voting in which the crowd would decide if the article would be in the correct column or not.
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- joeclark77 10y ago
  The problem with that is that in most cases, one of the two of you will be more talented and get more traffic, resulting in the other guy getting flamed by commenters, etc. For example Sean Hannity's show used to be "Hannity and Colmes", one right-wing and one left-wing commentator, and poor Mr. Colmes was just outnumbered and outgunned to the point that he quit.
- bryanrasmussen 10y ago
  It might achieve some popularity but the difficulty of determining correctness or bias or other things without bringing your own bias to the problem will of course mean that the stated goal is not what will actually be the end result.

awgme 10y ago

That was what we had in mind! I guess instead of saying we're trying to be "less biased", we should be focusing on "what both left and right-wing leaning news are saying", as long as the information is correct.

brudgers 10y ago
Curious what would be considered left leaning and right leaning and whether or not an "equal time" approach might reflect a bias.
- codeddesign 10y ago
  Correct...The only way around this that I see would be to allow voting in which the crowd would decide if the article would be in the correct column or not.
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joeclark77 10y ago
The problem with that is that in most cases, one of the two of you will be more talented and get more traffic, resulting in the other guy getting flamed by commenters, etc. For example Sean Hannity's show used to be "Hannity and Colmes", one right-wing and one left-wing commentator, and poor Mr. Colmes was just outnumbered and outgunned to the point that he quit.
bryanrasmussen 10y ago
It might achieve some popularity but the difficulty of determining correctness or bias or other things without bringing your own bias to the problem will of course mean that the stated goal is not what will actually be the end result.