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Do you have a "GroundNews" subscription, and if so what has the experience been like? Would you recommend it? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 72 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Maybe I'd get it if they had an API, but idk... So many content creators have pushed it so much it makes me suspicious. I don't trust anything with that big a marketing budget.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have considered this. There's also the potential that more creators are willing to accept the sponsorship offer because it helps in their work. Making it look disproportionately advertised. I suspect it's a bit of both. Their higher plans are expensive.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This was my red flag as well. I trust my sources that are advertising it, and haven't seen any bad sources advertising it, so I figured it best to ask just in case.

    Have you seen any notably bad sources advertising it? I feel like I may not have the full picture.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I trust my sources advertising it too, but things with big budgets are often not what they seem, both to us and possibly to our sources as well.

    Do we know who or what is funding it? Do we have a clear and open set of criteria for media classification? Haven't seen anyone talk about that in advertisements...

    I just went through its FAQ for the purposes of this reply and it says founders are ex-NASA and ex-Bain (global management consulting company)... If this doesn't sound like a US Intel thing to you at this point, I doubt we'll agree on anything else. If you're willing to entertain that notion, however, it also says:

    "Bias and factuality ratings are averaged from the published ratings from three third-party independent news publication monitoring organizations, when available"

    Which are:

    • All Sides
    • Ad Fontes Media
    • Media Bias Fact Check

    So there you go if you want to tumble further down this one. I think I'm good about paying for this service, though. I guess making a large scale project like this one without selling off part of your soul to one devil or another is just not feasible. Oh, well.

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