Dear Google, I suggest that you embrace this kind of audit in service of transparency and credibility: Create an automated news.google.com/audit page so that readers can easily evaluate the sources and track how they evolve over time.
As a user I would also greatly appreciate the ability to toggle news sources on and off, and/or to weight them, and to easily share those filters.
>As a user I would also greatly appreciate the ability to toggle news sources on and off, and/or to weight them, and to easily share those filters.
IDK. Do we need more ways for users to create bubbles for themselves? Is the solution to avoid Google's preferred bubble just to let you build your own?
I mean, yeah? You buy newspapers that you trust, you don't buy all of them.
What Fox News thinks is completely irrelevant to me since I'm looking for facts. I should be able to tell that to someone who's in the business of curating my news for me.
There is such a project. Proof media beta (https://proofmedia.io/) allows readers voting on the truth value and bias of news stories. It uses a betting scheme as an incentive.
As a user I would also greatly appreciate the ability to toggle news sources on and off, and/or to weight them, and to easily share those filters.