Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy
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Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy
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Re: Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy
#2I wonder if Democracy has anything to do with the move to accept ACLU today.
Re: Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy
#3Regarding the Fake News section and trust in media.
I would love to see a tool or company that holds the mainstream news sources accountable. Over the last two days the major news sources have been pushing a blatantly false "truth" ("Muslim Ban"). Intention of this post is not to get into a political discussion of this!
Every time I, as a heavy news consumer, see the BBC, NYT etc push a story which I know to be false or extremely misleading, I lose more and more trust.
I value the benefits that the mainstream press provides (checking sources, editorial discretion etc), but as I see more and more fake or misleading stories, I lose trust. I think this is a common feeling across many in the West.
edit: Could someone also clarify if these are intended for US only? I have a couple of ideas in mind for the UK which has a great amount of open source data regarding Gov.
edit edit: Apologies for mods if my example has derailed this thread a bit. Just used an example fresh in our minds.
Re: Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy
#4If you're concerned about jobs and democracy, open an office in a swing state. The way the us electoral system is organized, every young educated person who moves from the heartland to California is a vote for Trump.
Alternately find some way to get uneducated heartlanders to move to Fresno or something.
Also it would help if you show just the smallest amount of empathy people in the U.S. who don't live in one of two half states. (i.e. people whose tax dollars benefit Stanford and the origin of Silicon Valley in defense contracting, people who buy your products, whose stock market investments make it possible for you to get rich, etc.)
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#5Regarding the Fake News section and trust in media. I would love to see a tool or company that holds the mainstream news sources accountable. Over the last two days the major news sources have been pushing a blatantly false "truth" ("Muslim Ban"). Intention of this post is not to get into a political discussion of this! Every time I, as a heavy news consumer, see the BBC, NYT etc push a story which I know to be false…
I don't want to get too into this, but are you saying that calling the immigration order "Muslim Ban" is a false truth? I am really curious on why you think this?
Re: Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy
#6Regarding the Fake News section and trust in media. I would love to see a tool or company that holds the mainstream news sources accountable. Over the last two days the major news sources have been pushing a blatantly false "truth" ("Muslim Ban"). Intention of this post is not to get into a political discussion of this! Every time I, as a heavy news consumer, see the BBC, NYT etc push a story which I know to be false…
I don't want to get too into this, but are you saying that calling the immigration order "Muslim Ban" is a false truth? I am really curious on why you think this?
Yeah me either as it is off topic. But in response, it is not a ban on people of one religion entering the country. It is a ban on people from 7 terror prone countries entering.
For the passing news consumer, it would be very easy to be led to believe that Muslims are banned from entering the US.
Re: Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy
#7Regarding the Fake News section and trust in media. I would love to see a tool or company that holds the mainstream news sources accountable. Over the last two days the major news sources have been pushing a blatantly false "truth" ("Muslim Ban"). Intention of this post is not to get into a political discussion of this! Every time I, as a heavy news consumer, see the BBC, NYT etc push a story which I know to be false…
Determining truth is hard, and as you say the trouble is that everyone does propaganda. We are in a "fog of war" situation.
Maybe a better approach would be to focus on ways of securely authenticating, signing, and delivering primary sensory data like photos, video, audio, and transcripts and doing so without interpretation.
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#8This is what business leadership looks like. Truly inspiring to see the corporate world embrace civic responsibility like this.
Re: Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy
#9I've been working on a project that makes data-driven reporting more transparent: https://thegamma.net, which might very well fit with the accountable news theme. Any feedback on how to make it better would be much appreciated :-).
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#10Regarding the Fake News section and trust in media. I would love to see a tool or company that holds the mainstream news sources accountable. Over the last two days the major news sources have been pushing a blatantly false "truth" ("Muslim Ban"). Intention of this post is not to get into a political discussion of this! Every time I, as a heavy news consumer, see the BBC, NYT etc push a story which I know to be false…
I don't want to get too into this, but are you saying that calling the immigration order "Muslim Ban" is a false truth? I am really curious on why you think this?
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