A US$2bil startup aims to fix polarised news via an algorithm


The app’s 'News From All Sides' feature allows users to read political news from both the left and right of the spectrum. They can also move a sliding bar at the bottom of the screen to adjust the perspectives. — Business photo created by kaboompics - www.freepik.com

It all started, Ken Suzuki says, back in 1989 when he visited the Berlin Wall.

Suzuki, who was 14 and on a school trip at the time, was allowed to cross into East Germany because he had a Japanese passport. Along the way, he saw a memorial for a family who’d been shot trying to get to the west. If they’d waited a few months, he thought, they wouldn’t be dead. That November, the wall came down.

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