Show HN: Compare news from the political left and right

• their.news

  5 47 1.8 JavaScript

  React web app that shows you news from the other side of the political spectrum. Break out of the news bubble!

Exactly. The biases are per news source and actually constant: 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 media", 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/ 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.

• newscatcher

  20 2,895 0.0 Python

  Programmatically collect normalized news from (almost) any website.

Not sure if you are affiliated with https://newscatcherapi.com/ but I just wanted to note that the "privacy bot" is horrible from a UX standpoint and likely brakes the GDPR as well. 1) if you decline, it pops up separately on every website. 2) it doesn't allow users to separately opt-in and opt-out to tracking 3) the wording is not clear on the privacy aspect 4) it's linked to a chat nad newsletter

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