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Hey Google, Tell Me Something Good — Google Assistant feature delivering daily dose of good news.
“Tell me something good” is a new experimental feature from Google for Assistant users in the U.S. that delivers your daily dose of good news. Just say “Hey Google, tell me something good” to receive a brief news summary about people who are solving problems for our communities and our world.
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@rrhoover The stories are curated through the lens of solutions journalism by the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN). They're a nonpartisan nonprofit with the mission to spread the practice of reporting on emerging solutions to the problems we face as a society. It's the same rigorous reporting as traditional news it just also covers how some people are doing better – serving as an example that we can all learn from and maybe apply to our own communities.
SJN has a StoryTracker with over 4000 solutions journalism stories from publishers big, small, local, regional, national, international, etc. That's where the stories are coming from.
For more background, check out the Google blogpost, https://www.blog.google/products...
And check out the Solutions Journalism Network StoryTracker, https://storytracker.solutionsjo...
An AI controlled by one of the biggest corporations on the planet telling you only good news is one of the most dystopian things I've seen on this silly site.
@wyatt_t It may seem like that on the surface but this isn't superficial good news about random acts of kindness or unlikely animal friendships. And it's not supposed to replace your regular news diet, but add to it.
By sharing stories about solutions, we can show that doing better against a problem is possible and there's at least one potentially replicable model on how to do it. So if someone reads about a town in Vermont who was able to reduce their rate of opioid abuse by X%, that someone from somewhere can have more productive conversations with friends, family, and local lawmakers about how they can solve that same problem in their community.
@iamryanb looks like this isn't supported in Malaysia yet. Could you help turn it on?
@hakim_albasrawy @andreidiaconu While our content partner Solutions Journalism Network has stories that touch on countries from around the world, the majority of the stories are focused on the US. And as such, we have limited the feature to that scope – US only. Since it's more than just "good news" but news that focuses on solutions and progress it's more difficult to find the right news partners. We are actively looking for solutions and constructive journalism partners abroad so if you know of any great organizations, please send them my way.
@iamryanb Thanks for taking the time to reply. To be honest, I would opt into good news from the US instead of nothing. Either way, no worries - I am used to not having content in Eastern Europe :( later edit: Lol I wrote Easter Europe before 🐇🐰
"Tell me something good isn't supported in this region." - Oh, Google, nothing good ever happens around here 😅
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