NetNewsWire is available for iPad and iPhone and could change the way you read the news.
How Fake News Can Spread – Noah Tavlin
NetNewsWire (NNW) is a newsreader app that lets you follow any website without Twitter or Facebook skimming your activity data in between. All your subscriptions are synced privately, via iCloud or the most popular web-based RSS services. But the point here is that it’s your news, your way. NNW is completely anti-algorithm. It’s an antidote to the engagement-via-rage model of social networking.
“The algorithms optimize for engagement, because engagement is how you maximize ad revenue,” NNW owner Brent Simmons told Lifewire via direct message. “What really engages people is outrage—meaning the algorithms are dividing us into angry tribes for the sake of profit.”
Nearly every website and blog makes its new articles available as a machine-readable feed, called an RSS feed. Newsreader apps monitor these feeds and show you all the latest articles from all the sites you follow, all in one place, beautifully formatted and easy to read. It’s the most civilized way to stay up to date with your favorite sites. Here’s the pitch from the NNW site:
