B.S. Detector

Identify fake news sources on Facebook in Chrome.

2 followers

Identify fake news sources on Facebook in Chrome.

2 followers

Safety and Privacy platforms

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Chrome Extensions

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News

B.S. Detector is a browser extension that alerts users to unreliable news sources.

Launch tags:Web App•Chrome Extensions•Social Network

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Mila

Love the idea, may I ask how you base your flagging system? is it with some sort of reputation score or you have a list of questionable websites you defined by hand?

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10yr ago

VC Puzzle

✅ Twitter addresses online abuse! ✅ Facebook BS Detector is created! ✅ The WiFi is working!

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10yr ago

Jungle Rumble

This is so dumb that it's dangerous. The actual problem is human. If somebody doesn't understand that a clickbait headline about vaccines being dangerous is demonstrably false then the problem is too deep for a cutesy algorithm to solve with a little popup.

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10yr ago

@trevorstricker Well, at least that will help them a bit. But another solution is really needed to make people less susceptible to fake news

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6yr ago

Cloudless

We need more prototyping and exploratory work on these kinds of products. Time for Facebook to integrate a BS detector like this!

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10yr ago

The challenge here is assumptive sites that you consider B.S. I suggest having a voting number so you could flag it according to your source. However, you could still see that "x" # people agree or "x" do not". This actually brings more creditability to the tool too, so it's not biased.

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10yr ago

This extension causes some pretty bad performance issues for me on Chrome. Scrolling any page brought my CPU usage up to 40%+ ☹

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10yr ago

Amplifr

This is much much better than just filtering whatever from twitter feed, yes, but doesn't really help with the core problem. That won't help us filter out fake news from feeds of people who this fake news targeted in the first place.

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10yr ago

B.S. Detector

Maker

@xnutsive well, i don't want to censor fake news, i want to warn people that it's fake. people should be able to post and share whatever content they want, even if it's complete b.s.. there just ought to be a warning label.

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10yr ago

Amplifr

@selfagency great point (about warning not censoring). Is there a good way to push this extension to more users? I saw the TNW article (I think?), congrats, that's really, really cool.

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10yr ago

B.S. Detector

Maker

@xnutsive maybe if i spiff it up a bit, google will feature it in the chrome store

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10yr ago

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