New Browser Plug-In Spots Bias In News Stories

December 31st, 1969 | Category: Gadget News

A startup called SpinSpotter reportedly plans to unveil at DEMOfall 08 a new BROWSER TOOLBAR THAT SPOTS BIASED REPORTING IN NEWS STORIES, according to a report in tomorrow’s Wall

Street Journal. It achieves that by searching for “opinionated language, sources with conflicts of interest and an over-reliance on text from corporate and political press releases.”

Original post by Mike

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