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If you read SoylentNews, Ars Technica, Reddit, or anywhere other than the other site, you've probably heard about SourceForge hijacking accounts and monetizing open source software with crapware installers. It seems the other site is intent on burying that information. Perhaps they don't consider it newsworthy?
For those still using SourceForge, there are many superior alternatives.
Update: 06/02 03:27 GMT by mrcoolbp : Slashdot ran the story this morning.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday June 02 2015, @04:43AM
Not tech news - just regular news, like world events.
From time to time I think I've found an unbiased source but then it becomes plainly apparent that the publisher has an axe to grind.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2015, @07:47AM
(Score: 4, Insightful) by archshade on Tuesday June 02 2015, @10:59AM
Also if you find a news source you like that isn't insanely biassed you can usually see the pattern of bias and mentally adjust for it. Most media outlets have a running bias across all writers so its not that hard. Once you become aware of the expected bias at the organization level you can look at the individual writers and add a second level of adjustment to them.
Of course this does not replace multiple news sources. Also always question numbers, look where they came from. Who benefits? Are the conclusions made the conclusions possible? etc...
(Score: 2) by Non Sequor on Tuesday June 02 2015, @10:50PM
My solution is to stop trying to look for unbiased news and just argue against any person I'm talking to, regardless of the topic or their stance on it.
Write your congressman. Tell him he sucks.
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Tuesday June 02 2015, @02:35PM
Honestly it's pretty tough to do, humans are inherently biased, especially in this global culture we live in.
We (the SN editors) do strive to be "neutral and factual", but it's not as simple as intending to do so. One of the things we have going for us is that we don't seek profits or motivation to get page-views (no ads etc.), so there's no push for click-bait, but it does slip through (we mostly post what comes in as submissions, and they often have bias or clickbait that we are constantly trying to remove). We really are (believe it or not) just trying to report on what we see come down the pipe, and give the community what they want. Even there, the community is diverse enough that this task isn't as simple as one might hope. (/rambling)
(Score:1^½, Radical)