🔎 Help us investigate: Too bad to be true

Today's news media only investigates from one perspective: too good to be true.

We want to turn it around and scrutinize: too bad to be true.

Your support is needed

Conducting this journalistic investigation will take about two weeks and cost at least $2000.

Without your support, we cannot do it.

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Our investigator: One of Sweden's top journalists

To help us with this, we have contracted Anders Bolling.

For over 20 years he has been a leading journalist and editor at Sweden's largest daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter.

He is also the author of two books.

You picked the topic

Our readers suggested and then voted on which Too bad to be true-statement we should investigate.

Investigate this: The sixth mass extinction

This statement is spread wide and far around the world:
We are in the sixth mass extinction of animals and other species.

Our hypothesis

Our hypothesis is that it is not true, or exaggerated:

• The number of species in the rich countries are no longer shrinking. In many cases, they increase. Recently, species have stopped declining even in poor countries
• What is known as species extinction is almost entirely about shrinking populations
• The extremely large number of species said to be continuously extinct comes from theoretical models of insects and even smaller organisms assumed to disappear
• Among larger species, few extinctions in modern times have been documented
• Humans were much worse for animals and nature in the past than today
• Many species thrive in urban environments

Donate

Your donation is needed to carry out this investigation.

We are very careful to be fact-based, so the work will take at least two weeks of full-time work and cost at least $2000.

Without your support, we will not be able to carry it out.

If it succeeds, we hope to be able to carry out more investigations of "Too bad to be true."

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Not reducing real problems

Warp News is a fact-based optimistic publication. We do not deny problems or try to put a positive spin on them. If something is bad, it is.

But often problems are exaggerated. Or people believe that something is getting worse when it is actually getting better.

We think it's important to correct these misconceptions.

Otherwise, many people have an overly negative view of the world. This affects them and all of us through the decisions they make based on this pessimistic outlook.

People are often amazing at solving problems. But when we have done that or are beginning to do so, the media often misses reporting it.

That's why we often believe that old problems still exist.

Therefore, it's also important not to hide problems and criticism, as long as it is fact-based.

When we find out about problems, we can do something about them.

But then we also need to know when the problems are starting to decrease. How else will we know what we are doing right and can do more of it?

Our journalistic investigations into what is too bad to be true are part of that.

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Change the news media

Our goal is for this investigation to have an impact in other news media and of course on social media.

We want other media to realize that they don't just have to scrutinize from the perspective of "too good to be true" but also "too bad to be true."

If we succeed in this, we will have better balanced media in the world.

More people will feel hope for the future.

Your donation contributes to this.

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