Spin Doctor
Having trouble with spin in the news?
Spin Doctor is a tool that helps you find spin in online articles from any webpage. It is not a medical professional, but instead the service aims to leverage machine learning to inform users about the content they find online. While in beta mode this site serves as a preview of what is to come. You can review examples of analyses on the Articles & Analyses page. It uses a combination of natural language processing and machine learning to identify and extract spin from content in an unbiased fashion. Users will be able to perform an automated arbitration if they disagree or find a mistake in the analysis.
Spin Doctor is designed to be unbiased, with the goal of helping you make more informed decisions.
There are several techniques that news articles may use to manipulate the reader's perception.
Here are the techniques Spin Doctor can help you with:
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