Should we stop supporting them with our eyes for taking sponsorships from shady companies?

  • PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    I’ve been using Ground News for the last six months or so and quite like it. It does seem like you may have a misunderstanding of how it works though. Ground News is not, in itself, a “news outlet”, nor does it generate articles, its an aggregator. When viewing a story there is an AI generated summary of all of the articles related to that story, but its generally no more than 3-5 bullet points, and certainly not enough information to form an opinion (nor is it intended to be). The user should read several of the articles and form their own opinion based on that. Further, their bias and factuality gauges use data thats averaged from external organizations, so again, not generated by Ground News itself. They lay it out here:

    https://ground.news/rating-system

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      5 months ago

      their bias and factuality gauges use data thats averaged from external organizations

      And they shouldn’t. Those sources are wrong and Ground News amplifies their wrongness. Everything is a bias. Reality is socially constructed and every piece of buy-in is a bias. From gender, to money, to race, to nations, to names, to humanity, to personhood.

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      5 months ago

      I’ve been seeing a lot of ground news links with improbable numbers. I’m beginning to doubt their conceit.