One of the interesting things about a running a social news site is that you get an early warning system about not only breaking news, but also what people care about. Yesterday a story about Splenda from a questionable source made it to the home page. People are alarmed and the story has 36 votes and 42 comments already… our Anchors and Navigators are investigating the story.

http://health.netscape.com/story/2006/09/26/the-lethal-science-of-splenda-a-poisonous-chlorocarbon

It seems a lot of folks are really concerned about Splenda and we’ve mobilized dozens of folks at Netscape (users and staff) to investigate the issue.