Pan-European dialogue made simple thanks to new app

Fake news, anonymous trolls, algorithms that foster echo chambers and promote hate speech: The digital challenges to contemporary public discourse are vast and well-documented. Such is the furor around them that a few analysts have gone as far as to claim that "the internet is drowning today's democracies."
However, behind the technophobic sensationalism lie dozens of pioneering digital solutions that not only rectify the challenges of today's dialogue, but offer new and unprecedented ways for political discussion. One of the most ambitious is Talking Europe, a platform that aims to facilitate a pan-European dialogue across language barriers and conflicting opinions.
With a modern and minimalist design, the app welcomes users with a series of core ideological questions, such as "Should every country hold a referendum on EU membership?" or "Do you support an immediate ban...