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>I have the feeling that in the last few years all political discussions have become more extreme. No doubt true. The reason is the important problem. >Our fi
by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
>I have the feeling that in the last few years all political discussions have become more extreme.
No doubt true. The reason is the important problem.
>Our filter bubbles don't help with this issue.
Filter bubbles are a thing no doubt and certainly dont help but imagine your average person at the bar talking to his friends. They have a filter as established by tables IRL. Or imagine 100 years ago where someone had 1 newspaper to read and that was the most they knew about the world.
>It's super interesting to see how news from the left and news from the right report the same events differently.
I called this 15 years ago with google news. They kind of just aggregated the news and didnt put any slant or bias. You could see for yourself the lies made up by the journalists.
>This means that even though I think "Their News" was a super interesting project to work on, I probably could not get people to use it even if I paid them to .
I would say your implementation is nicer than https://www.improvethenews.org/ https://www.improvethenews.org/ from MIT but you're right. People are opposed to reading outside their bubble.
If I may make a recommendation. Dont try to fix this problem the way you are doing it.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-pravda-media-company-already-exists-1826271755 https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-pravda-media-company-already-...
Dont try to show the news but rather let people rate and search via authors. Do like Elon musk states and let people call journalists out on their bullshit. Have rankings on the site showing how rottentomatos the news is.