Factfully is the world's first AI-driven misinformation checker.

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Version
0.3
Update
May 1, 2024
Size
9.64MiB
Developer
Category
Users
66
Rating
5 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (United States)
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Permissions
ContextMenus
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factfully Extension

There are massive server farms dedicated to churning out fake news. Why are we relying on a handful of human fact-checkers to counter them?‍

Right now, there are wars on 4 out of our 6 inhabited continents, the American government is in turmoil, and we’re gearing up for yet another election .

Agendas are becoming more heated, and politicians more desperate. And that means we’re seeing a fake news epidemic like never before, without the proper tools to combat it.

factfully is the world’s first AI-driven misinformation checker. We use carefully trained algorithms to determine whether content on the internet is true or not, and if not, who’s behind the lie.

Our algorithm first uses a neural network to rank a statement in 13 different metrics, such as sensationalism, testability, and political bias, in order to do a pre-evaluation of whether a statement seems true or not.

Next, we cut out all the layers of fluff in the statement, and use a tokenization algorithm to determine which parts of the statement can be objectively fact-checked, and which parts are subjective opinions.

Third, we scrape thousands of websites across the web to determine whether the statement has been corroborated by other sources or not.

Currently a Chrome Web Extension, coming to other platforms soon.
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Source Manifest.json

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