[thenerdhead]

I took a current events class in high school that challenged us to read three articles for every topic. One from the left, one from the right, and one on the fence.

This exists as a website today:

https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news

While I'm not sure of the value prop from your app today, perhaps there are ways to help inform the user regarding what your "trust index" means to them.

I think one of your cool features is the "duplication detection" where you find how many times a passage or article is duplicated on the internet. I would find that especially useful to the "trust index" if one side had significantly more articles duplicated than the other.

[stevepeg]

It's good to hear that media literacy is being taught like that in high schools. Education on the topic is the best sure-fire solution in the long term.

We really like AllSides but where I think our product differs is that we say that sides don't really matter if you get to see everything reported on the story from all publishers.

If you go to an article from the right in our app, we'll inject content from the left (and everyone else) in-context when you tap on a highlighted piece of text. And vice-versa, if you go to an article from the left, you'll also see reporting from the right (and everyone else). You don't have to go looking for the other articles.

A clever news reader will go out and read several articles from different viewpoints on a particular story, but the idea here is that it shouldn't be a manual process when technology can present it to you conveniently.

Cool idea regarding duplicate detection, but it would have to be from a neutral perspective and not point at the left/right as that will only widen divides further. Maybe a list showing all the details that appeared in a story ordered by the number of articles that covered each.