Improve the News

What is this?

This is a information aggregator web site developed by a bunch of researchers at MIT and elsewhere to give you management of your news consumption, as defined in this 5-minute YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRLF17Pb6voab_channel=MaxTegmark

Many information sites treat you and your consideration because the product they sell to their advertisers, however this one is ad-free and eliminates price through full automation.

Just as it’s more healthy to choose what you eat intentionally rather than impulsively, it’s extra empowering to chose your news food plan intentionally with this app rather than to randomly read what marketers and machine-learning algorithms elsewhere predict that you’ll impulsively click on on. You could make these deliberate choices about, stance, style, and so forth. by adjusting sliders, for 544 topics. Sliders make it quick and simple to search out various viewpoints and become conscious of how varied media shops bias protection in several directions. This app was built on the assumption that filter bubbles hurt democracy, and that society advantages after we can understand different individuals's points of view.

How is that this funded?

We have an ongoing analysis challenge lead by Prof. Max Tegmark (https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/home.html) on how machine learning can be used to categorise information. Since this news aggregator is absolutely automated, working it as an ad-free public service costs us nothing besides a really modestt cloud computing invoice.

How does it work?

We’re planning to open-source our machine-learning algorithms on GitHub once they’re accepted for publication.

Won’t this contribute to filter bubbles?

There’s a rich scientific literature on how click-optimizing algorithms at Facebook, Google, and so forth. have polarized and divided society into groups that each get uncovered only to ideas they already agree with. So won’t giving individuals decisions such because the left-right slider on this web site exacerbate the problem? Recent work from David Rand’s MIT group (https://psyarxiv.com/29b4j) suggests the other: that people turn into much less vulnerable to pretend information and bias when given easy access to a spread of knowledge, enabling what Kahneman calls “system 2” deliberation as a substitute of “system 1” impulsive clicking and reacting. Their work also suggests that many people are excited about opinions disagreeing with their very own, if expressed in a nuanced and respectful way, but are hardly ever uncovered to this. So maybe we ought to always not rush responsible consumers somewhat than suppliers of stories.

What is your privateness policy?

You’ll find our privacy coverage here: http://improvethenews.com/index.php/privacy-policy/.

How can I contact you with feedback?

This is work in progress, and as you probably can simply tell, there’s plenty of room for improvement! Please help us make it better by providing your feedback right here: http://improvethenews.com/index.php/feedback