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Exactly. The biases are per news source and actually constant: https://github.com/Hadjimina/perspectiveNews/blob/0c4c6a932abb1a91a0f66a4bfc23553ae1df25a7/src/he
by imiric 6y ago
Exactly. The biases are per news source and actually constant: https://github.com/Hadjimina/perspectiveNews/blob/0c4c6a932abb1a91a0f66a4bfc23553ae1df25a7/src/helpers/constants.js https://github.com/Hadjimina/perspectiveNews/blob/0c4c6a932a...
I'm sure they are eventually updated, but making a general judgment per news source to show individual articles means it will occasionally be wrong and misleading for the reader. The name alone, "their news", suggests an us vs. them mentality that we could use less of these days.
For once I think machine learning would be suitable for this. Have something like GPT-3 process individual articles and produce a bias number. I think this is how https://www.improvethenews.org/ https://www.improvethenews.org/ works, and at a quick glance, does a much better job at classifying.
But honestly? We shouldn't bother. Consume every new information with a critical mind, and don't expect editorials to do the thinking for you. There are no bias sliders for social media posts, where most information comes from these days, and we need to teach critical thinking instead of picking what we want to agree with or not.
- Hadjimina 6y agoTheir news was chosen b.c. it's simple and because the point of the website is to inform yourself about their news (i.e. other peoples' news). Thanks for pointing it out though. I did not think about that.
- giantg2 6y ago"But honestly? We shouldn't bother. Consume every new information with a critical mind, and don't expect editorials to do the thinking for you." I completely agree.
- loonster 6y agoCould probably do this with just searching for adjectives. Instead of a right/left news display it would be a positive/negative display.
- Hadjimina 6y agoI had a version that tried to do sentiment analysis on the article text and display an emoji below it. The idea being that one a certain issue you might only see positive emojis on the right and only negative ones on the left (or vice versa). Buuut it did not really work out so I scrapped it again.