Polarization, echo chambers... how do we fix the problem of biased news? That's a problem today's Win-Win guest has dedicated her life to solving.
Harleen Kaur is the founder of Ground News, a news aggregator platform that provides overviews of what different media outlets across the political spectrum report, so that consumers can get a clearer and more impartial perspective. We explore the deeper questions of WHY we’re so divided in the first place, and what are the most promising ways of healing that divide. An especially important topic as we head into the age of synthetic AI generated media!
Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:55 - Harleen’s Background
00:09:10 - Ground News
00:22:07 - Advertising Model Leading to Polarization
00:31:30 - Positive Effects from Ground News
00:35:22 - Reaching GenZ and Boomers
00:40:15 - Other Solutions To the Media Moloch
00:48:22 - Role of AI to Combat Media Bias
00:52:46 - Jonathan Haidt Solutions for Social Media
01:03:22 - Win-Win News
Links:
♾️ Ground News
https://ground.news/
Ground News Browser Extension
https://ground.news/extension
♾️ Sentiment Mining 500 Years Of History: Is The World Really Darkening?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/05/14/sentiment-mining-500-years-of-history-is-the-world-really-darkening/?sh=1725a43e35ef
♾️ Fairness Doctrine 1949
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine
♾️ Paradox of Polarisation Study
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-polarization-paradox-elected-officials-and-voters-have-shifted-in-opposite-directions/
♾️ Jonathan Haidt - Social Media
https://jonathanhaidt.com/social-media/
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Credits:
♾️ Hosted by Liv Boeree
♾️ Produced & Edited by Raymond Wei
♾️ Audio Mix by Keir Schmidt