In this newsletter
1. Articles with Overtone scores on oil and gas
2. CEO Philip on ‘dinformation’
3. Updates & conferences
All of us are floating through an ocean of information online, and we are constantly figuring out how to navigate through it so that we can make decisions about our lives. This can be overwhelming even for small subjects, but particularly bewildering when you’re talking about something global.
Few things are more global than energy, which heats homes, fills up cars, and powers businesses. Over the last months, a tsunami of information has been on oil, gas, and renewables, with different prices moving up, others moving down, deals being made or not being made, and recessions looming or not looming. It can be hard to know whether the piece of news you’re about to read is a drop or a wave.
As countries around the world look to a potentially cold winter, we had our algorithm score thousands of articles about oil and gas in the last two weeks. In some of them our model (which looks at the text rather than just the headline) saw many journalistic signals and some of them showed less journalistic effort to explain what is going on. These ten came two each from five outlets, so extra points if you can distinguish the different types of articles that are coming from the same sources.
France's fuel shortage causes frustration for motorists, anxiety for government
OPEC+ production cuts pile further pressure on global inflation
Remembering John Rowe: Utility Titan, Philanthropist And History Lover Who Has Died At Age 77
Falling Aluminum Prices Will Weigh On Alcoa’s Q3 Results
Russian gas supply gap casts chill in Europe as winter nears
India's gasoil, gasoline sales surge on festive demand
In a warehouse in Slough, ‘mad scientists’ vie to be the Tesla of heat pumps
As power cuts loom, the failure of Britain’s energy strategy is plain for all to see
Europe’s Hunt for Clean Energy in the Middle East Has a Dirty Secret
Oil posts biggest weekly gain since March on supply fears
1. France 24 - In-depth
2. France 24 - Low-depth
3. Forbes - In-depth
4. Forbes - Low-depth
5. Reuters - In-depth
6. Reuters - Low-depth
7. The Telegraph - In-depth
8. The Telegraph - Low-depth
9. Bloomberg - In-depth
10. Bloomberg - Low-depth
CEO Philip Allin on '“Dinformation”
Overtone is trying to make sense of the oceans of content online. Focusing on text, we ask ourselves what can you really know about an article – before reading it?
We dive deep (quite literally) into text to find the qualitative signals in the noise of quantitative metrics. Why? We think that matters to people.
We call all that content-noise ‘dinformation’.
Overtone updates
Forward our full-stack engineering post to your techy friend
We’ll be at the Truth and Trust Online conference in Boston this week. Let us know if you’ll be there too!
Last month Overtone’s co-founders took part in the global WAN-IFRA congress in Spain. Beyond a brief brush with the King Felipe VI, we had very interesting conversations about what publishers are looking for and where AI can help. Here is a quick snapshot with Zaragoza’s beautiful cathedral in the background.