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Skewz, which I stumbled on via MR this morning, is yet another way of tagging the news - this time with perceived political affiliation, so stories are tagged by users with their apparent "bias" as either "liberal" or "conservative". Since urban legend has it that half of the Sun's readers in the 1980s thought the paper supported the Labour Party this sort of tagging may be more useful than is initially obvious.
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