The Problem with Newcial Media

There are several reasons for building another news aggregator app. I am listing some of these reasons in a series of short notes, in no particular order. This is Note 6.

Most news aggregator apps curate content from regular news media sites as well as social media platforms. If I could coin a term, I would call these Newcial media apps.

It is okay for news to percolate into social media—that is one way news spreads. However, it is definitely not okay for social media to invade the news, especially when social media is full of opinions, unsubstantiated reports, fake videos, and other misleading material.

At Tikker, we want to take a small step toward correcting this. While we cannot remove opinions from news publications, we can at least eliminate the direct infiltration of social media posts into news. To this end, Tikker News will host only genuine publications. So when you read an article on Tikker News, you will know exactly who has published it.

Is there a specialized, local, or vernacular publication you would like to see on Tikker? Are you one such publication that would like to be on Tikker? Let us know.