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Microsoft Developing News Sorting Based On Political Bias

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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.

2 of 234 comments (clear)

  1. WTF does this have to do with MSNBC? by melted · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Or did you pull this out of your ass?

  2. Re:Perfect... by morari · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your parents are part of the problem...

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