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Comparing two news apps showed me how much bias I was missing
I used to only read news from one major app for about 6 months. Then a buddy told me to try a different app from another country. The same story about a local protest had completely different facts listed, like the number of people there and what started it. It took me an hour cross-checking both against a local paper to see how much got left out. Has anyone else found a way to get a fuller picture without spending all day reading three sources?
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baker.christopher3d ago
Hell yeah, that's a wake-up call. What nobody's bringing up is you should also pay attention to what stories they DON'T cover at all. If one app completely ignores a riot or a disaster that's getting wall-to-wall coverage elsewhere, that's a huge red flag. I started keeping a mental note of big stories I see on one app that just vanish on the other. That silence tells you way more than the slant of the articles themselves. It's like they're trying to steer your whole view of what's even happening in the world. Checking for what's missing is just as important as checking the facts you do see.
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