Blindspotter VS The Factual

If you want to see how you are doing personally, go to https://ground.news/blindspotter/twitter/ and put in your Twitter handle. If you are not getting at least 20% of your content from sources opposite to your political affiliation, then you are woefully ill-informed and are likely wrong about much of what you believe to be true. Source: over 1 year ago

Easy site to look people up individually is blindspotter . I may have to go digging for that study on news consumption since a couple people are asking for it…. Source: over 1 year ago

Not when you control for political affiliation. Conservatives tend to be more knowledgeable on controversial issues, partly because they also tend to consume news from sources on both sides. I know there was a study on the news consumption a while back; I’d have to go digging for it. There is also a site you can use with a tool called blindspotter that lets you type in someone’s twitter handle to see where they... Source: over 1 year ago

The Twitter Blindspotter - A Twitter tool that tells you if your media diet is balanced, or skews to one side of the political spectrum. Source: almost 2 years ago

Mediaopoly - A Twitter tool that tells you what interests own the news you read/interact with. Source: almost 2 years ago

From the site, thefactual.com, MSNBC's credibility, or factual rating, ranks them in the 17th percentile. That means that MSNBC is less factual than 83% of the other news sources presented in the dataset. CNN is in the 15th percentile. Fox News sits right in the middle of these two in the 16th percentile. Source: about 1 year ago

According to thefactual.com, CNN received a Factual Grade of 53.3%, placing it in the 15th percentile. Fox News received a Factual Grade of 53.6%, placing it in the 16th percentile. Both are shitty, but according to this analysis, Fox News is marginally higher. MSNBC received a Factual Grade of 54.9%, placing it in the 17th percentile. You are a Dunning-Kruger ignoramus. Source: over 1 year ago

We also have a newsletter focused on credible news at thefactual.com, and we'd be happy to swab feedback! Source: over 2 years ago

> Moreover investment of time on user side for newsletter delivering news increases with each newsletter vs One newsletter delivering what I want. You might be interested in this article[1] and the discussion of subscribed vs. Filtered sources. It'd be nice to have a convenient way to assign different priorities to newsletters/content sources. So for a few, you'd get every issue, and for the rest, they'd be... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Hi there, yes, we're planning a follow-up discussion for this week! Follow us via email at thefactual.com, or social media @thefactualnews and we'll keep you updated on the upcoming discussion. Our previous one did well, and we tackled multiple perspectives with data. We hope you can join the next one! Source: about 3 years ago