Daily Mixer Lets You Read the News Before You Know the Source
If you only read the same few sites with a similar bias, you might end up in a political echo chamber . To combat this, the Daily Mixer shows you stories from various news outlets, but won’t show you where they came from until you read them.
The site takes RSS feeds from thirteen different news outlets across the political spectrum and puts them on a single feed without any tags indicating where the articles came from. You can flip through, click the story and read the entire article. Once you get to the end, you can click the source link to go to the original site and see where it came from.
In practice, the site is a stripped-down RSS reader (which is also fine if you want to read without seeing tons of ads), but it’s a handy experiment to play with your biases. While you can sometimes see where the story came from (for example, FiveThirtyEight often includes photos with their names), the Daily Mixer will still show you some articles that you would not otherwise see if you closed the news site based on purely by name. The list of sites is also curated (there are thirteen sources so far, but the developer plans to add more over time), so you won’t get automated junk.