Chris Evans started a new site about politics because he thinks Wikipedia entries are too long
0Reported today on The Verge
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Reported today in The Verge.
Chris Evans started a new site about politics because he thinks Wikipedia entries are too long
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With our politics increasingly polarized and democracy in retreat, worried Americans are responding in all manner of ways. Some, such as former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, have mounted a fight against voter suppression. Others, such as Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, are lobbying social networks to change their products and policies to promote transparency and accuracy in political advertising.
And then there's the actor Chris Evans, best known for playing Captain America in 10 Marvel movies. According to an earnest new cover story that came out today in Wired, Evans is doing ........ this:
He would build an online platform organized into tidy sections -immigration, health care, education, the economy -each with a series of questions of the kind most Americans can't succinctly answer themselves. What, exactly, is a tariff? What's the difference between Medicare and Medicaid? Evans would invite politicians to answer the questions in minute-long videos. He'd conduct the interviews himself, but always from behind the camera. The site would be a place to hear both sides of an issue, to get the TL;DR on WTF was happening in American politics.
The origin story of A Starting Point, as the site will be called, is as follows. One day during a break from filming Avengers: Infinity War, Evans was watching the news. He heard an unfamiliar acronym - NAFTA, or maybe DACA. He Googled the term, and was met with headlines that took multiple, competing points of view. He clicked on the Wikipedia entry, but found that it