Tanbih: Get To Know What You Are Reading
This addresses the challenge for readers in understanding biases and reliability in news media, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing news analysis tools.
The authors tackled the problem of news analysis by introducing Tanbih, a news aggregator that groups news into events and generates media profiles to assess factuality, propaganda, partisanship, ideology, framing, and stance, with results including automated detection of propagandistic content and stance on controversial topics.
We introduce Tanbih, a news aggregator with intelligent analysis tools to help readers understanding what's behind a news story. Our system displays news grouped into events and generates media profiles that show the general factuality of reporting, the degree of propagandistic content, hyper-partisanship, leading political ideology, general frame of reporting, and stance with respect to various claims and topics of a news outlet. In addition, we automatically analyse each article to detect whether it is propagandistic and to determine its stance with respect to a number of controversial topics.