Ask HN: Anyone interested in building tools for showing bias in news?
A different or supplementary approach could be removing the bias from a news item.<p>Instead of trying to determine which biased side an article is skewed towards <i>and</i> then finding other links to what is determined to be the &quot;alternative view&quot;. Scrubbing bias or at least highlighting it is already helpful.<p>For example: at work we get daily emailed briefs with major business news items summarized to ~3-5 bullet points of facts. Journalist opinions&#x2F;bias and rhetoric language is mostly removed in the bullet point sentences. It&#x27;s not a perfect system by any means, not even close, and I would love to see something similar offered that&#x27;s improved and expanded in what it can do.<p>This type of bias scrubbing&#x2F;summarizing is easier in business news and sports news which involve more numbers and figures reporting (+nowadays many of the full articles may also be written entirely by bots - see link below). It would be harder to expand this for longer investigative&#x2F;politics news articles. But a partial imperfect solution here is better than status quo.<p>I would be a user of a tool that could summarize key &quot;unbiased facts&quot; from articles and I would be interested in helping build it too.<p>Link to a NYT story about algos writing&#x2F;summarizing news: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;08&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;sunday&#x2F;if-an-algorithm-wrote-this-how-would-you-even-know.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;03&#x2F;08&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;sunday&#x2F;if-an-algor...</a>