Uploaded August 2018 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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Many people increasingly exist in an ideological bubble, getting
all their news from a handful of sources that they trust and
shunning everything else. This leads to polarised, insular
viewpoints, stifling debate and increasing divisiveness. Your
task is to make a web browser plugin which encourages users to
read about a story from multiple angles. When reading an
article, it can suggest an alternative, opposing source for the
same topic. It needs to be able to categorise stories so that it can
recognise the same topic in different publications, categorise
sources so that it can find an interesting alternative stance
(ideally not just how left- or right-leaning it is, but also things
like the background of the author, the size and age of the
publication, the tone of the articles), and also present this to the
user in a way which will circumvent their defensive instincts
and encourage an open mind.