An Open Research Initiative To Foster Information Integrity
Unbubble Hub is a space for researchers and engineers to come together and collaborate in developing tools to fight social polarization.
We want to help people form their own judgment not by promoting “correct” opinions, but by fostering meaningful, conscious disagreement, encouraging a plurality of perspectives.
In order to do so, we believe that information integrity tools should be open, transparent, and accessible to everyone.
01 / Projects
What we're building.
Active tools in the open, more in the works. All code on GitHub, all data under permissive licenses.
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Sources Live
Takes a news event as input and returns sources, categorized and ranked, representing a range of diverse viewpoints as output.
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GDELT Pulse Beta
Pulls GDELT's 15-minute data updates, extracts sources and annotations, and builds a searchable database of global news coverage.
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Glance Research
Open-source misinformation-labeling for social-media feeds. Covers X, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
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Trails Self-host
Telegram bot for following narrow, source-curated news trails. You describe a topic conversationally; the bot proposes outlets, filters meaningful updates with an LLM, and pings you on a schedule.
02 / Writing
Notes from the lab.
Short essays, project updates, and research notes. Latest posts from our Substack.
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Building a Better News Engine: The 7 Categories We Need
Open a search engine after a big story. Ten links come back and they look like ten different perspectives. They're usually the same, ten times, and we want to help you fix this.
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When Sources Multiply but Positions Don’t
To form an opinion on a serious question, I almost always start with a search engine. So do you, probably. This is about what happens in that moment, and what we're building to fix…
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Welcome to Unbubble Hub
This is where we tell you what Unbubble Hub is, and why we're building it.