{"id":218085,"date":"2022-08-15T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=218085"},"modified":"2022-08-15T09:25:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T08:25:59","slug":"mit-app-improve-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/08\/mit-app-improve-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT App: Improve the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Aug 2022 &#8211; <\/em>Based in part on the SPR <a href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/media-navigator\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media Navigator<\/a>, an MIT research group has developed an online app called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.improvethenews.org\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Improve the News<\/a> that allows readers to filter and compare news based on the \u201cpolitical bias\u201d and the \u201cestablishment bias\u201d of media outlets. Their own machine learning algorithm <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0271947\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> that these are indeed the two most important dimensions of media bias.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/video-the-cia-and-the-media\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The CIA and the Media<\/a> (updated)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/advanced-online-media-use\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advanced Online Media Use<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/the-propaganda-multiplier\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Propaganda Multiplier<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-161314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> Swiss Policy Research<em>, founded in 2016, is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit research group investigating geopolitical propaganda in Swiss and international media. SPR is composed of independent academics that for personal and professional reasons prefer to protect their identities, and receives no external funding; there are no financial sponsors or backers. Our articles have been published or shared by numerous independent media outlets and journalists, among them <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/assange-tweet.png\" >Julian Assange<\/a>, and have been translated into more than two dozen languages.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/mit-app-improve-the-news\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; swprs.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 2022 &#8211; Based in part on the SPR Media Navigator, an MIT research group has developed an online app called Improve the News that allows readers to filter and compare news based on the \u201cpolitical bias\u201d and the \u201cestablishment bias\u201d of media outlets. Their own machine learning algorithm confirmed that these are indeed the two most important dimensions of media bias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":161314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[2375,2314,2881,1855,234,1365],"class_list":["post-218085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-alternative-media","tag-corporate-media","tag-journalistic-ethics","tag-mainstream-media-msm","tag-media","tag-war-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}