Comment by cyrusradfar

Comment by cyrusradfar 3 days ago

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I'm a huge fan of the general space and I think this is a really solid approach vector to learn what user problems exist in this design.

I'll dump a few thoughts as they come for the creators, feel free to riff with me on the thread if that'll be of value.

My perspective, as a User, is I'm interested in rooting out bias and where it's coming from. Moreover, the influence networks are fascinating as well.

I think, for example, understanding which publications "picked up" a story vs didn't is very very viral use case as you could imagine people using you as a backdrop to a social post about editorial bias. That said, I think you need to pick who you serve because the folks who will be interested in this aren't the average person as they're not super news focused.

One way to learn may be looking at the types of meta-stories posted about the analysis on media and see how you could support those types of ongoing analysis. Scoring, honestly, is an another really interesting idea. What are publications "for" or "against" based on how they do editorial, and how they bias their headlines, and ledes.

antiochIst 2 days ago

Yea I feel you... Honestly I kinda just whipped this thing up in context of a larger project I'm working on.. so i have not given much thought to who it will serve. "rooting out bias" is interesting idea... But a bit negative in nature, I was more hoping to identify & highlight the original/powerful sources of news...