Politics: Microsoft Developing News Sorting Based On Political Bias 2008-03-14 21:21
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ScuttleMonkey
on Friday March 14, @09:21PM
from the next-measure-the-magnitude-of-political-affiliation dept.
from the next-measure-the-magnitude-of-political-affiliation dept.
wiredog writes "The Washington Post is reporting that Microsoft is developing a program that classifies news stories according to whether liberal or conservative bloggers are linking to them and also measures the 'emotional intensity' based on the frequency of keywords in the blog posts." If you would like to jump right to the tool you can check out "Blews" on the Microsoft site.
