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You could run them through sentiment analysis too, categorise sources as left/right/middle etc. Flag obvious content farms/bias etc. I do think it's been done b
by new_guy 5y ago
You could run them through sentiment analysis too, categorise sources as left/right/middle etc. Flag obvious content farms/bias etc. I do think it's been done before but can't remember any details from the top of my head.
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoWould be great to have a timeline with "AP reported that 1) ..." with a list of say five facts and then "these 274 sites reported the same facts within the same 24h" or something similar with another early source identified. You could then add data like "Twitter user $USERNAME reported that ..." earlier in the timeline, or what have you. I guess if it got popular you'd get news/syndication sites doctoring their publication times to always appear first on the timeline. Would be useful to look at something like a timeline of political events spanning a decade, or a topic like the JET (Joint European Torus project) with all the stories that made mainstream news. You could add mashups like what the main entertainment news was, or what the other main stories were, or stock tickers, alongside the news timelines. I guess focus and where to prune the branching news stories will be hard. The UK PM's handlers are constantly using the technique of burying 'boring' news by having him do something really stupid that is expected to fill news cycles for a few days. Their manipulation of the media has been masterful pulling in all the learning from the USA; I digress. The point being it would be interesting to plot a timeline of apparent buffoonery, or short-lived outrage stories, and the actually important also-ran news stories that the buffoonery was there to hide.