How a Daily Newsletter Can Fix Your Biased News Feed
Between Maryland’s primary election results and other daily local news, it’s hard not to want to stay-up-to date on current events. But, now more than ever before, news consumers are skeptical about how their news is handed to them. Bias can happen in any news article, sometimes in less obvious ways.
Some individuals seeking news that matters most to them are having to spend more time identifying when news articles are one-sided, using emotionally-charged language, or intentionally leaving out perspectives that would go against their narrative. News evolves too rapidly for this to be a realistic method of consuming trustworthy news. The advent of an AI-powered unbiased newsletter may be the solution that many are looking for.
The Biased New Dilemma
Biased news is not new, but the lack of trust in the media is growing. The total number of Americans who follow the news has declined 15% since 2016. Lack of trust in the news is part of the problem.
Through social media platforms like Reddit and Facebook, sharing opinions on the news has become easy and quick, so quick that it keeps up with the rapid pace of evolving news. While audiences for traditional news outlets are declining, independent creators have been able to use digital platforms to build audiences through blogs, podcasts, YouTube videos, and more. Now more than ever before, audiences can seek validation of their opinions on any given news topic through a wider option of news sources. In addition, audiences can fact check news sources by turning to independent sources and other digital media outlets.
Fact-checking, seeking out new news outlets, and validating news sources becomes a task in itself that most Americans don’t have time for. News is changing so fast that it’s hard to keep up with, even when opinions and hundreds of news outlets are readily available right on people’s smartphones. The problem remains: finding reliable news sources that leave out bias.
Using AI as a Solution to Biased News
With AI becoming readily available to any Internet user, it has now also become a tool fast enough to keep up with current events. Artificial intelligence can help detect and remove bias from articles faster and more accurately than any human can. Instead of combing through hundreds of articles covering the same topic, AI can identify the facts in an article and remove the bias, delivering balanced news sources free from journalistic partiality.
Even AI-powered unbiased news articles are not new. But, the next evolution in finding fair, trustworthy articles has come through newsletters that consist of a compilation of the most up-to-date unbiased news articles sent to readers daily. Through a daily newsletter that delivers AI-reviewed, unbiased content, individuals seeking trustworthy news no longer have to sit down for hours sifting through sources and validating their credibility. Consuming the news can once again be done at the same pace as sipping on your morning coffee.
Can AI Be Trusted to Deliver Unbiased News?
Here’s the catch: AI does not create the news. It simply reviews already-covered news, identifies biased language and emotionally-charged language, and leaves it out of an updated version that now consists only of fact. Removing emotion may be the one thing AI can do with written content better than any human can.
According to the Pew Research Center, while Americans are cautious about using AI for creativity, they are more open to using it for data analysis. Identifying bias within news articles is simply a form of analyzing written content to deliver a factual final product. Through this method, and still reviewed by human editors, AI could prove to be a solution to many Americans’ distrust in the news.