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Making stealth edits was Winston Smith's job at the Ministry of Truth. Please someone write an unstealthing service, a cross between Wayback Machine and diff,
by hirundo 5y ago
Making stealth edits was Winston Smith's job at the Ministry of Truth.
Please someone write an unstealthing service, a cross between Wayback Machine and diff, that outputs a feed of such edits.
I'd love to see a trend of sites surfacing changes themselves and serving up a per-article history like Wikipedia or GitHub. Bonus if they annotate the changes. In this case they could just write something like "the lab escape theory still looks unlikely but we're now less certain of that".
- anaphor 5y agoIt exists for NYT headlines https://twitter.com/nyt_diff https://twitter.com/nyt_diff Also https://twitter.com/newsdiffs https://twitter.com/newsdiffs
- throwawaysea 5y agoI wish there was a way to know how much exposure each version of information received. Retractions often don’t have the corrective effect of setting the record straight because few read an older article that got an update but isn’t on the front page anymore.
- bfuller 5y agoIf only it existed for the content too, when I had the unpleasant experience of being interviewed by them they changed the article many many times. In fact, in my whole career the NYT journalist was the most unprofessional, unethical one. They knowingly took things I said out of context and portrayed them to mean the opposite things. Startup founders, I advise you to decline NYT interviews, they are extremely unscrupulous.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoWayback supports diffs natively, it’d be straightforward to poll for diffs based on URLs you wanted to monitor. https://thenextweb.com/news/the-wayback-machine-now-lets-you-track-changes-to-web-pages https://thenextweb.com/news/the-wayback-machine-now-lets-you...