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Nice idea, I signed up.

Curious to see how you handle weighting/filtering of the sources, the whole "fake news" issue.

Not your primary concern, I'm sure, but I don't (normally) use Google, nor allow Google-tools into my browser. I am a small-but-vocal minority. There are good alternatives to Google's recaptcha, Google-docs registration, etc. Just sayin'.

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Great point, we'll have to work on that going forward. We've been using AP News as our main source for the moment as it is fairly neutral, but we're looking for ways to handle different sources going forward. We went with google but are open to other suggestions for future forms

I strongly suggest you make it user-configurable, history shows it's difficult for any individual to reliably predict what news is fake vs not. Rather, tools such as this might actually help one differentiate, provided the news sources aren't censored.

User-configurable does sound like a good option, hopefully something we can integrate into the site soon

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