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Counterweight: Diversifying News Consumption

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The bias of news articles can strongly affect the opinions and behaviors of readers, especially if they do not consume sets of articles that represent diverse political perspectives. To mitigate media bias and diversify news consumption, we developed Counterweight---a browser extension that presents different perspectives by recommending articles relevant to the current topic. We provide a platform to encourage a more diversified consumption of news and mitigate the negative effects of media bias.

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    UIST '20 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
    October 2020
    203 pages
    ISBN:9781450375153
    DOI:10.1145/3379350
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    1. bias mitigation
    2. media bias
    3. online news
    4. political polarity

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    • (2024)Geo-spatial hypertext in virtual reality: mapping and navigating global news event spacesNew Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia10.1080/13614568.2024.2383601(1-30)Online publication date: 29-Aug-2024
    • (2023)Marvista: Exploring the Design of a Human-AI Collaborative News Reading ToolACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/360933130:6(1-27)Online publication date: 25-Sep-2023
    • (2023)Mitigating the Spread of Misinformation Through DesignComputer-Human Interaction Research and Applications10.1007/978-3-031-41962-1_2(26-50)Online publication date: 24-Aug-2023

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