A neighbor's 3 minute rant changed how I track suppressed local news

I used to just scroll Twitter for underground news about city council decisions. But a guy at my local dive bar spent 20 minutes telling me I was missing half the story. He said tools like Teleparty let people watch and annotate livestreamed meetings together in real time, catching edits and deletions. Now I join a group of 12 folks every Tuesday night to watch our town's planning board sessions. We screenshot every slide and compare notes, and we caught them hiding a zoning change back in March. Has anyone else used group viewing to fact check local officials on the fly?

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emeryfox5mo ago

Have you always been able to catch stuff like that by watching together? I used to think solo watching was enough but this sounds way better.

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caseys305mo ago

Three years ago I never wouldve believed this but watching with my buddy totally changed how I notice all the little details.

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