News source believed to be inaccurate

manatsu

https://news.kagi.com/s/rdc4j4
The news sources cited in this article include "RT.com".
This site is known for claiming to provide "alternative truths" and is a media outlet with a very strong propagandistic aspect.
I believe that using such a site as a source significantly undermines the credibility of Kagi News.

I want Kagi to block propagandistic news sources, or for users to be able to choose the news sources themselves.

tux0r

manatsu This site is known for claiming to provide "alternative truths"

All state media provide "alternative truths", usually those preferred by whoever reigns the country.

manatsu I believe that using such a site as a source significantly undermines the credibility of Kagi News.

I believe that removing sources for all users solely based on your personal preferences significantly undermines the credibility of Kagi News.

nichu42

Unfortunately, Kagi News deliberately choses to include disinformation sources, see https://github.com/kagisearch/kite-public/pull/276
Their service, their rules. I regrettably uninstalled it.

Thibaultmol

I personally don't like rt either tbc, just to start of.

but the concept behind Kagi News is that it takes many sources and will only make a news item about it if a variety of sources talks about something.
In theory stuff could still slip through, so far it seems like this hasn't really happened, but they're working on verification systems as well

tinytankpu

I tried Kagi News for a couple weeks while traveling and my home server was down (where my usual aggregator lives). I found it largely useless because of this attitude.

It's already well known that human writers will sell their same article/story to many different sites with only minor tweaks, triggering even somewhat reputable sources to all suddenly carry the same non-news story simultaneously. And it's a well know problem that less credible sources will do the same, now often using AI assistance.

It hasn't been a valid tactic to look for "independent" source quantity to highlight importance or validity for most of a decade. Basing a new once-a-day news aggregator on that model simply doesn't work, nor camn it be made to work.

Gredharm

I can see as Kagi grows, it is going to endlessly attract people who want to censor things they disagree with.

RT absolutely provide a lot of disinformation, just like every news rag on the planet. They are the Russian equivalent of CNN or MSNBC.

Read both sides, and if you're lucky, you'll find some truth somewhere between them. More likely you'll just get two totally different lies that have no bearing on reality.

The point of news aggregation (and search for that matter) isn't to give one entity the ability to determine the truth for all viewers. It is to allow viewers to see all the information that exists, and to decide for themselves what the truth it.

Even in lies, there is some truth, because you get to learn what propaganda different sides are pushing. What IS useful, is understanding who has financial or other stake in the various outlets, so you can understand who is pushing what lies.

A useful function would be the ability to disable some sources you personally don't like, similar to with search. Or to provide data about the base country and ownership information of each source.

Otherwise, may as well just ask ChatGPT directly to tell you what to believe.