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How Credible Is the News in Your Facebook and Twitter Feed?
The Factual’s Chrome extension now evaluates the credibility of articles right in your Facebook and Twitter feed.
The Factual Bot: Helping Reddit Users Have Balanced Discussions on the News
The Factual and Reddit’s r/neutralnews are collaborating to improve the quality of discussion around the news.
What Is the Best Email Newsletter for News?
We often ask our readers what other newsletters they read and why. What we’ve learned is that different newsletters appeal to people for different reasons. Some people choose a newsletter due to a specific topic focus (e.g. Tech or Business), while others like a specific format or value (factual news, summarized news), and yet others …
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A solution for algorithmic transparency, as outlined to the US Senate
In June 2019 Stephen Wolfram, a pioneer in computer science research, was asked to testify to the US Senate Commerce Committee about one of the more pressing problems of our time: how internet platforms persuade us to spend too much time on them. His testimony was measured and thoughtful, as befits the youngest MacArthur grant …
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What if most news is not that important?
More than half of all Americans get a portion of our news from social media but most of us are frustrated by the experience. Rampant bias and even downright false stories are part of the problem but increasingly people are becoming aware that the news they see in their feed is selected primarily because it …
OwlFactor is now The Factual. Also — how not to name your startup.
I’m delighted to announce that today we’re rebranding OwlFactor as The Factual.
OwlFactor launches Trusted News Service to combat biased and fake news
We are all sick of biased news, click-bait headlines, and fake news.
Apple News subscription is fatally flawed but not because of the revenue share
On February 12, rumors leaked of a subscription coming soon from Apple News. The details are being refined but the concept seems to be $10/mth to access all news content across dozens of paywalled sites.
Why isn’t there a Netflix for News?
For most content — music, video, TV — there are subscription models that allow people to access a wide range of content for one low monthly fee. Spotify and Netflix have shown the demand is high for such offerings. So why isn’t there something similar for news? This question is timely as news organizations grapple …