Otherweb - A smarter way to be informed

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Read the news, discover podcasts and search the web - without clickbait, eye catchers, auto playing videos, paywalls, partisan echo-chambers, or whatever else digital marketers can come up with next.

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Excellent work, congrats guys! I've been looking for something like this for a long time.
thanks Vladimir! Let me know what you think once you use it - any comments / feature requests would be appreciated!
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What happens if an article is just false? Do you fact-check too?
if you say there's a lion in your kitchen, we're not going to go to your house and check :) So our general approach is to make sure evidence is provided along with the claim, but we do not verify the substance of the claim - that task is unsolvable in the general sense.
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Ok, so I tried to look at a few nutrition labels, and mostly it's on point. But sometimes it ranks good articles pretty low. Any ideas why?
would love to see some examples. I think usually this happens to articles that are good but very opinionated, like op-ed columns. Our algorithms are fine-tuned on pure news items, so they penalize opinionated language pretty heavily. We plan to create a separate scale for op-eds in the near future.
Thank you!
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So you're scoring Reuters in the 90s but Fox News in the 50s, how can you claim there is no political bias?
these two outlets score different because of how their articles are written, not because of their political stances. You might also note that CNBC scores about the same as Reuters and MSNBC scores about the same as Fox - so politically the scores are symmetric.
Thank you!
we really appreciate your support! As a token of appreciation, we want to offer you a special bonus - besides web and mobile, you can also consume the Otherweb as a free newsletter: ; it's a daily selection of the top-10 articles of the day, sent to you each morning. Cheers!
Interesting idea, I really like that I can customize my feed. I wish you best laucl the launch! 🙌
thanks Wojtek!
Thank you!
Looking forward for your app. Good luck!
thanks Alexandr!
Thank you!
we really appreciate your support! As a token of appreciation, we want to offer you a special bonus - besides web and mobile, you can also consume the Otherweb as a free newsletter: ; it's a daily selection of the top-10 articles of the day, sent to you each morning. Cheers!
This looks awesome. i would love to try this out soon.
thanks Mikl! Let me know what you think, I'd love to hear your comments/suggestions.
Thank you!
we really appreciate your support! As a token of appreciation, we want to offer you a special bonus - besides web and mobile, you can also consume the Otherweb as a free newsletter: ; it's a daily selection of the top-10 articles of the day, sent to you each morning. Cheers!
Congratulations on the launch. Awesome stuff.
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How is this different than twitter feed?
twitter feed is essentially unfiltered, so most of it ends up being junk. We try to be as quick as twitter (by scraping sources in real time, including twitter itself), but we apply heavy filtering to everything to make sure only quality articles make it through.
we really appreciate your support! As a token of appreciation, we want to offer you a special bonus - besides web and mobile, you can also consume the Otherweb as a free newsletter: ; it's a daily selection of the top-10 articles of the day, sent to you each morning. Cheers!
Trying it now, looks pretty good so far. What other features do you plan to add?
You've probably noticed that we have news, podcasts, research studies, books, online courses, etc. We think the "holy grail" is to be able to navigate these layers seamlessly, to explore the same concept across the information space - zoom in, zoom out, peek sideways etc. That's our next step!
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