Is there anythong in the "backend" pre-ai, data scraping etc that is open and decentralized that people could use?

It feels to me like the bigger problem is more about assembling time series of "news" not "news today".

Like if you wanted "show me all stories about crime X from the BBC since 1980" or whatever but then you want to do this across many sources.

This is the missing piece for most new analytics. I think there are legal blockers to getting this done and why I mention decentralization.