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Partial Press — Breaking news according to political bias 🗞
Partial Press is a bias-aware news aggregator. Created as a drop-in replacement for Google News in the age of fake news. It marks breaking headlines as coming from liberal-friendly (blue) or conservative-friendly (red) news outlets. Like a health warning before you click 👩⚕️— to make you aware of where you get your daily intake. Uses NewsAPI.com.
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Daniel Fitzpatrick
How did you decide which bias to give a news source? Anything pop up as hard to label?
NewsAPI has author info; do you think/can you test to see if there is another level of bias there? i.e. Fox news might have one left-leaning writer (anything is possible....).
Maybe a rating system to rate which way readers feel specific articles lean, and then apply that to sources/authors? (ok, I know I know, that would be a shit show).
And as always: any thoughts about going open source?
NewsAPI is new to me, and you've made great use of it! I'm excited to play a bit with it. Maybe I could use partial press as a way to filter out the biased crap :)
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@dancyfits I'm still working on the news sources (w/ News API) and the bias labels (w/ mediabiasfactcheck.com). I'm happy to open-source it. If you remind me in a few days when I've finished tinkering I can put it on GitHub, no problemo.
@dancyfits Just went ahead and put it up now. Why wait?! :) GitHub link is listed above.
@mcknco Just saw this. I'm gonna fork it and play around a bit, maybe see if I can redo it in node, python, somethin. Just for fun/practice, no going public and stealing your millions :D
@dancyfits All yours, mate! Send me a message if you get something going :)
If you're in two-column mode, left-leaning sources are displayed in the left column, right-leaning sources displayed in the right column. Compare and contrast biased headlines on the same topic, rather amusing!
Just want to give a quick shout out to @highaced — without his incredible project NewsAPI.org (also on PH!) this app most definitely wouldn't exists. Cheers Jordan!
