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by yzydserd 908 days ago
> Our proprietary algorithm will then read, analyze, and refine the content, producing a list of neutral summarized points.

An open source algorithm might be more trusted to be unbiased, since a neutral list of summarized points may itself be biased by selection.

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if you knew how the algorithm worked then you could bias it. Keeping the sauce secret allows us to impose our neutrality on the world. I encourage you to use it and evaluate its neutrality. Criticism welcome.
A big source of bias is deciding what to report on, as well as how to tell the story. For this reason I also like the idea of “you might also want to read X with a different but related story”. But you would need to get a wide set of sources for X perhaps tens of thousands of outlets.