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New digital platform Factmata launches, aiming to combat harmful content online and help future-proof the internet from harmful narratives. Over the last few years in particular we’ve all become aware of the dangers of misinformation, particularly online. Now, a new startup has been developed which is aiming to address that very issue - a startup which we previously featured at a very ear...
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The lowdown on Curio, the startup that lets you handpick content from leading publications and turn it into beautifully narrated audio you can listen to any time, anywhere... We’ve written plenty of times before about how our lives are increasingly filled with stuff and our time has to be spread between many different things, even if these things are no more than reading the news.&nb...
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We take a look News Over Audio, an Irish startup that's aiming to change how we engage with journalism... Hard work often means little free time, and little free time means that either we don’t keep up with what’s going on in the world around us or we waste time that could be spent with friends and family to do just that. Engagement with quality journalism is already on the decline am...
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Compass News - the innovative journalism startup that'll help you navigate the world of news from the publishers you can trust. Consuming news is both easier and harder these days than ever before. Some outlets even put their news on paper, an idea they saw in a chip shop, we’re guessing. Print? Is that what it’s called? That doesn’t sound right. Either way, a dozen news so...
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As the saying goes, you better check yourself before you wreck somebody’s career with your inexcusable ignorance and misinformation. It’s definitely something like that, anyway. If only there were some sort of state-of-the-art fact-checking system that uses machine intelligence to protect people from misleading information… Developed at University College London and University ...
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While some traditional news media continues to maintain its integrity, many other industry outlets resort more and more to click-bait, sensationalist headlines, and questionable, biased reporting. It can be and has been argued that such traditional media is failing both its own industry and us, the consumer. Add to this their digital-age struggle with monetisation, and the market is left wide ope...
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There’s a fair bit of stuff going on at Echobox - so forgive us if we try to summarise. Firstly, Echobox uses AI to intelligently automate content distribution on social media for media companies and publishers - taking over the logistics and legwork of social media management. Basically, it is an AI tool and it takes on the role of your social media assistant. They've even given it a name...
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Courier is a London based newspaper title about startup culture. Launched a year ago as a quarterly publication, Courier focuses amongst other things on the people, passion and the psyche of small business and startups around EC1 and the whole of the big smoke. We picked up a copy a few months back and after reading it front to back, we thought it’d be great to interview founders Soheb Panj...
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