The site, which co-founders Christopher Altchek and Jake Horowitz launched in June, aims to give people — 20-somethings especially — a place for intelligent discussion of current events.
“After you leave college, there’s not a good place to debate current events,” Altchek says. “We started thinking about how everybody gets their current events from news sites, but nobody actually engages there … [Twitter and Facebook] are both great platforms, but they’re not built for meaningful exchange of ideas. On Twitter you are very restricted, and Facebook is hard to have back-and-forth debates that don’t get lost.”
PolicyMic removes discussions about the news away from news sites — where commenters are not exactly known for their insightful comments — and into a community that is somewhat self-curated.
Startup Provides Platform For Political Debate With Secretary of State
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