There are a lot of terrible things out there but one that really bugs me is all the misinformation/propaganda that the internet causes. I didn't see it coming, I thought the web would make people more informed, not less.
Check out http://grasswire.com (I'm the co-founder). It's a newsroom that's fact-checked and curated by everyone. We're just getting started and have a lot of work to do, but we've had some pretty good success so far crowd-sourcing the news and debunking misinformation/propaganda that tends to spread like wildfire on the internet.
How do you fact-check the fact checkers, or the facts? Every newsroom and plenty of other sites claim to be impartial and unbiased, but it's impossible, once you have an audience, not to play to that audience.
On the front page you state what could be interpreted as an anti-capitalist, left-wing bias: information that governs the world should be controlled by everyday people, not governments or corporations. And yet 'everyday people' can be just as biased, bigoted and self-interested as governments and corporations. Curation does not in and of itself imply impartiality or truth - if anything, it can magnify the biases of a group through network effects and positive feedback loops.
Cool idea, but the interface is confusing me profoundly.
When i Click on a story (and to a lesser extend, when i look at the front page) my eyes are zigzagging around trying to latch onto something, but everything seemingly craves my attention equally.
Large headlines, up vote trackers and huge (semi-informative) pictures all over the place is really a bit too much.
Make a list, have the photo the left of the headline, and maybe a blurb on the right or when hover-over.