How the Washington Post Rewrote Its Story on Russian Hacking of the Power Grid

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/01/01/fake-news-and-how-the-washington-post-rewrote-its-story-on-russian-hacking-of-the-power-grid/#74c570ee291e

by altstar • 10 years ago

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dkla1120• 10 years ago

I think there is a huge opportunity space for delivering accurate and unbiased news, or something that can give the reader some degree of confidence that they are getting a bigger picture than what is being presented by a single source.

Unfortunately, I don't think it is an easy problem to solve.

After this last election cycle it really magnified for me how biased, misleading, and inaccurate many of the news source outlets are. Especially some of the self proclaimed fact checking sites.

I found myself getting in the habit of looking up news on several sources, just to confirm. Sadly, lots of news outlets get away with quoting the original source, (i.e. "CNN reported that...")

In my gut I feel that there has to be a better solution than Snopes, Factcheck.org, or Politifact which are all are prone to a lot of the same problems.

divbit2• 10 years ago

Unfortunately, I don't think it is an easy problem to solve.

Here's my back-of-napkin 5-second attempt: a site called something like news-shuffle, which will have all the prominent news sites (Important that there are news sites from each side of the spectrum, e.g. all the way from beitbart(sp?) to cnn. Things are listed like hckrnews.com style interface, but similar items are grouped on one link. Click the link and it gives you a random version of the story (i.e. could be breitbart, could be cnn, could be comments on ycombinatory / reddit / etc (maybe some nsfw filtering though)). That way at least you are sometimes forced to consider the story from other peoples perspective.

basch• 10 years ago

indents are follow up stories. click the arrow next to a story for an expanded source list.

http://techmeme.com/

http://www.memeorandum.com/

dragonwriter• 10 years ago

Important that there are news sites from each side of the spectrum, e.g. all the way from beitbart(sp?) to cnn

So, the whole insane far right to moderate corporate right spectrum?

ZoeZoeBee• 10 years ago

repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13311376

How the Washington Post Rewrote Its Story on Russian Hacking of the Power Grid

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