Latest “Concept Statement”

Alex Frankel
Elephants and Asteroids
1 min readJan 29, 2018

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FOR those interested in engaging with politics for the first time WHO want to understand why there is so much disagreement in the world right now, “What Are They Thinking?” (WATT) is a crowdsourced encyclopedia THAT helps users understand perspective across the political spectrum. UNLIKE most news sources that either provides an aggressively objective point of view, or seeks to provide a “winning” argument, WATT’s explicit goal is to further understanding, not help win debates.

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In case the first version isn’t going over well:

FOR news consumers WHO ARE not satisfied with their typical news offerings WATT is a crowdsourced take on current events THAT helps people get a greater perspective on issues, particularly the viewpoints they don’t understand. UNLIKE today’s media which is either aggressively objective or out to win an argument, WATT’s explicit goal is to further understanding, not win debates.

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Alex Frankel
Elephants and Asteroids

Masters Candidate at SVA IxD. Program Manager at Microsoft