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RE: Hurrah For Buzzfeed: Open-Source Works In Politics Too

in #politics8 years ago

Crowdsourced news is becoming really popular now that anyone can start up a blog or YouTube channel to analyze the news and even have fans participate in sharing articles and their thoughts. The name "alt-media" is being thrown around a lot but open source news as you describe fits in really well with what's going on there. Interesting stuff.

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Thanks! Yes, it is interesting and also important. One war, the Spanish-American war, was started over an item - the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine - that was given a spin which was at least arguably fake news.

If open publication and crowdsourcing didn't step in, whi knows how far this Russia flap would have gone?