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Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks revisions to news articles?

3 points by alanh ↗ HN
It’s increasingly commonplace for journalists and hacks alike to update their articles, dropping or revising the most poorly researched sections, without noting the retraction, much less preserving the original edit.

It would make sense for there to be a tool which scrapes news sites and reports on the "diffs".

Does one exist? Have any of you tried to hack something like this together?

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jaredsohn
There are websites and browser extensions (such as https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/page-monitor/pemhg... ; haven't used it myself though) that keep track of diffs of pages, but they require that a user first decides to watch a particular webpage.

Is this what you are looking for or are you looking for something that tracks news stories automatically? (useful if you want to see how an article changes before you saw it or if you want to discuss changes within a community.)

alanh
The latter. Interested in accountability and transparency.