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Ask HN: Ranking news articles based on truth/bias in the content?

2 pointsby rajanchandiabout 8 years ago
I like the idea of WikiTribune but involving real journalists in an organization can be very slow and could cover only a small amount of news. It&#x27;d be a better idea to rank existing news articles on the basis of their truthfulness by allowing community members to point out fake&#x2F;biased parts of it or good&#x2F;objective parts of an article. It&#x27;d be a little slower for the reader to consume the news but the quality and truthfulness of the news can be preserved.<p>Let&#x27;s assume that we built a website and a chrome plugin combo. The plugin will allow anyone to flag the fake&#x2F;biased parts of a news article and the website will show the articles ranked on the action by community members (and geographic location, maybe).<p>Will this be sustainable as a startup&#x2F;organization i.e. paying bills for a small team which builds and maintains the software? Will you&#x2F;people pay a subscription to such an aggregator site which attempts to list the news links based on the truthfulness of the content? I&#x27;d love to know your perspective.

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