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From the name I assumed it was about breaking out of filter bubbles, which is something I'm very interested in. A couple of years ago I created a news mixer tha

From the name I assumed it was about breaking out of filter bubbles, which is something I'm very interested in. A couple of years ago I created a news mixer that pulled stories from left and right-leaning outlets and intermingled them: https://smashthebubble.com/ https://smashthebubble.com/ Since RSS is pretty much dead, it was hard to find the right feeds for US politics from each source. So you may see some non-political stories there from time to time.

tenuousemphasis 6y ago
This seems to make the mistake that by looking at two oppositely biased sources you can come to a reasonable conclusion about truth.
- lucio 6y ago
  at least you'll be aware of bubbles.
senderista 6y ago
Why would I want my news to be equal parts Breitbart and Daily Kos?
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- gurkendoktor 6y ago
  Maybe the situation was different 35 minutes ago, but neither source is featured on the site. It actually looks pretty decent, but I shouldn't spend more time on US news.
- putlake 6y ago
  Those aren't among the sources. The sources are listed here: https://smashthebubble.com/about https://smashthebubble.com/about (National Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Fox News, CNN, Politico, RealClearPolitics, NewsMax, ThinkProgress, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, Quillette, The Atlantic)
  - Pfhreak 6y ago
    That doesn't really help, that set might as well contain the sources the parent commenter suggested. Several of those sources are really low quality organizations.
- washicalendar 6y ago
  This is my problem with these efforts to get people out of their “bubble.” I am on the left end of the American political spectrum. I’d Vote Blue no matter what because the other side is too far gone, to the point where it’s not even worth my time or energy to even begin to understand that side. For me, it’s just objectively wrong. “My” team believes in science. The other team believes that there are shadow forces in the government who control everything and that people on “my” side are devil worshiping pedophiles who believe that my skin color makes me a lesser person or that my Jewish friends are trying to “replace” them. What’s the point in leaving my bubble?
  - concordDance 6y ago
    Hmm... I think you are getting an _extremely_ distorted view of what the other side actually believes, only being exposed to the most zany extremes. I also very much doubt "your" side believes in science as much as you think. Politically inconvenient facts are ignored by all politically motivated groups and attempting to do studies that could contradict bedrock dogma is a good way to be out a career (as Stephen Hsu just found out after he got fired recently for funding a study investigating race and police brutality several years ago that ended up returning the "wrong" answer).

tenuousemphasis 6y ago

This seems to make the mistake that by looking at two oppositely biased sources you can come to a reasonable conclusion about truth.

lucio 6y ago
at least you'll be aware of bubbles.

senderista 6y ago

Why would I want my news to be equal parts Breitbart and Daily Kos?

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gurkendoktor 6y ago
Maybe the situation was different 35 minutes ago, but neither source is featured on the site. It actually looks pretty decent, but I shouldn't spend more time on US news.
putlake 6y ago
Those aren't among the sources. The sources are listed here: https://smashthebubble.com/about https://smashthebubble.com/about (National Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Fox News, CNN, Politico, RealClearPolitics, NewsMax, ThinkProgress, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, Quillette, The Atlantic)
- Pfhreak 6y ago
  That doesn't really help, that set might as well contain the sources the parent commenter suggested. Several of those sources are really low quality organizations.
washicalendar 6y ago
This is my problem with these efforts to get people out of their “bubble.” I am on the left end of the American political spectrum. I’d Vote Blue no matter what because the other side is too far gone, to the point where it’s not even worth my time or energy to even begin to understand that side. For me, it’s just objectively wrong. “My” team believes in science. The other team believes that there are shadow forces in the government who control everything and that people on “my” side are devil worshiping pedophiles who believe that my skin color makes me a lesser person or that my Jewish friends are trying to “replace” them. What’s the point in leaving my bubble?
- concordDance 6y ago
  Hmm... I think you are getting an _extremely_ distorted view of what the other side actually believes, only being exposed to the most zany extremes. I also very much doubt "your" side believes in science as much as you think. Politically inconvenient facts are ignored by all politically motivated groups and attempting to do studies that could contradict bedrock dogma is a good way to be out a career (as Stephen Hsu just found out after he got fired recently for funding a study investigating race and police brutality several years ago that ended up returning the "wrong" answer).