A coalition of 20 local, regional and national media outlets from across Canada Unrigged.ca is a news platform that provides up-to-the-hour news from across the country.
Unrigged.ca offers Canadians a place to access the latest news, podcasts, features, op/eds.
This looks neat! Pretty progressive content at the moment. We’re facing/about to face a news crisis. We need novel solutions to connect quality journalists to interested readers. Co-op type platforms like this might work well. This site has very little in the way of tracking (i.e., anti-privacy) on it too - 1/10th what you’d find on a mainstream site 👍
Reads like a youngster’s definition of balanced: unhinged neo-cons contrasted by centrist sympathies. Complete bypass of progressive, left of center nuance.
Like so many sites before it, lax moderation will polarize the users resulting in a mass exodus of the “No, you’re crazy” crowd. I give it 18 months to right itself or implode.
The list of sources includes a bunch of notable progressive voices like Ricochet and Press Progress, while I couldn’t find a single right wing example (extreme or otherwise). Browsing the headlines on their front page, every last story I saw lacked any reference to hyperbole, and most of the stories took positions typically occupied by the Left.
I can’t help but associate a term like ‘Unrigged’ with the alt-right movement of our neighbours to the south.
Is this coalition of publications truly meant to be objective in its coverage? I don’t know enough about all of the member media outlets to make an assessment, lol.
That said, I want to believe in a service like this and will follow it with cautious optimism :) .
I believe the name Unrigged refers to the rigged algorithms of social media giants, that prevent link sharing
From an early release message:
For some time, we’ve dreamed of bringing independent media outlets in Canada together in a collaborative approach—a site where we could be the sum of our many media parts.
When Meta systematically blocked news on Facebook and Instagram, and Google threatened to follow suit, we knew it was time to get this project done. We teamed up with Harbinger, Press Progress, The Hoser and more than a dozen progressive media outlets to launch a new cooperative platform for independent news.
The result is Unrigged.ca, a convergence of 20 independent publishers from across Canada.
It’s a one-stop shop for progressive news coverage from coast to coast, and we’re very excited to have helped make it happen.
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