News consumption and news media in general is a major societal problem right now. Building a new way of consuming news is not as vapid a pursuit as it may seem at first glance.
That may be true, but going towards even faster news and shortening our attention spans even more doesn't seem like the step in the right direction. More like just exacerbating the problem.
People who "identify misinformation" used to be described as "censorious." I don't want anyone defining misinformation and deciding what to show me. I have no idea what the plans for this app are - the landing page is not exactly rich in detail.
But I'm open to trying any app that gives me more control over my informational input streams, without the noise of blogspam, ads, paywalls and all the other nuisances that come with modern day news reading.
I appreciate that Gmail filters spam for me, but only as long as I can open the "spam" folder and see for myself which emails were marked as spam. I would not appreciate a service that "filters" my news without offering the same level of transparency.
