| Hi everyone, I’m Steve, one of the team working on The Daily Edit. We’ve built a news aggregator which shows you every detail that has been reported on a story regardless of which article, or which publisher, you choose to visit. Readers can choose whichever angle they like and they’ll still see everything that’s been reported, from all sides. They don’t have to visit several articles to do this, it all happens in one place. We’ve put some examples of what it all does on Twitter: @dailyeditapp. If you find more great examples please share them with us! How did we get here? Myself, Craig and Mich work(ed) as pilots for an airline out of Hong Kong. Over our careers we’ve seen that all of the current issues with the news happen everywhere around the world and, like everyone, we’re tired of it. During COVID our flying rosters were reduced significantly so we had a bit more free time than usual. We used this time to have a go at building something that can help fix this mess. Initially we made a tool that highlights questionable pieces of text like logical fallacies and such. We tried this out with some friends and kept getting the same feedback. Nobody really cared that much about the text, they all said the real manipulation happens through omission. For a while we discussed how to do this without falling into the fact-checker trap. Fact-checkers are great but every time they show an error a new group emerges from the mist to spend the rest of their lives arguing against it. Eventually we realised that if we could aggregate deeper than just the articles, go right into the text itself and pull out details, then we could make this work. We got a small proof-of-concept up and running, put together a team and got to work building the real thing. We hope you like it! It’s early and there will be bugs, but we’ll squash those! We have a lot more stuff coming over the next few months including a web app and browser extension. If there are particular things you think would be awesome to have, we’d love to hear it!. If you have any feedback at all feel free to email us at feedback !at! dailyedit.com |