Mozilla Teams Up With News Outlets to Redesign the Comments Section

The New York Times and the Washington Post hope to add a layer of editorial control over user-generated content -- and turn comments into a more thoughtful outlet.

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Comments sections across the Internet run the gamut from thoughtful to dreadful. Publications often meditate on the helpfulness or necessity of a comments section, and a few like Popular Science and copyblogger have decided to do away with them entirely. But Mozilla has teamed up with The New York Times and the Washington Post to change the conversation.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, an organization that promotes innovation in journalism, is sponsoring a new comments infrastructure project for journalism sites to the tune of $3.9

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