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We are researching ways to make news stories trustworthy. For example, we feature both news briefs produced humans and news forecasts by both of our AI bots. We clearly label any content on this website created by AIs. Also, see our Bot or Not page for our research on unmasking bots pretending to be humans.
We are also evaluating how to enable news consumers to become communities. Examples:
Newsweek’s subscriber count doubled in 2024 due to community building.
Seemingly on life support just two years ago, it doubled its subscribers, reports Mark Zohar. He’s the CEO of ViaFoura. It helps news media grow by improving community engagement.
Brian Morrissey, writing in The Rebooting, agrees that Newsweek’s success is based on its community building. Therefore, he reports, they have overcome the “original sin” of online news publishers when they chose the “surrender of the social interaction function to massive platforms like Facebook and Twitter/X.”
Allsides
It offers balanced news from the left, center, and right. This empowers readers to understand the role media bias plays. The AllSides Media Bias Ratings™ and AllSides Media Bias Chart™ help make news bias transparent. This helps readers to identify different perspectives and political leanings. Therefore, readers get a full picture and learn to better think for themselves.
AskNews
“News, when quality matters. Integrate premium news data into your applications with a single line of code.”
AskNews is a subsidiary of Emergent Methods, LLC.
BuzzFeed
CEO Jonah Peretti creates custom social media experiences.“It’s clear we can’t rely on the platforms to create a positive environment for content creators like us.” Otherwise, says his colleague Brian Morrissey, “I suspect that horse is not just out of the barn but off the farm. Spin through BuzzFeed and it’s not exactly a vibrant Times Square.”
The Wall Street Journal
Its comments sections are heavily moderated, making it a vigorous but mostly polite environment. Also, It gives commenters their own pages featuring their statistics.
