Fact Layer by RatNeurons
Fact checking resource to help navigate the internet. Provides contextual information via the toolbar giving a brief explanation of a news/organization and what its bias is.
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Fact Layer provides helpful contextual information on many sites while you browse the internet.
Some of the features include:
1. Integration into social networking / news aggregation sites, to make it easier to tell if a news item is worth clicking into. Currently Reddit, CounterSocial, Digg, Slashdot, and Fark are supported.
2. Bias information on more than 2,000 news/media sites.
3. Information on satire, fake news, and extremely unreliable sources.
4. Article specific fact checking lookup that displays the number of factual statements that are disputed.
5. Information on around 8,000 charities.
6. Automated detection of some fake local news sites (i.e actionews3.com, channel22news.com, etc).
All site information queries are done locally, meaning no information is sent to me about your browsing activities at any time.
Some of the features include:
1. Integration into social networking / news aggregation sites, to make it easier to tell if a news item is worth clicking into. Currently Reddit, CounterSocial, Digg, Slashdot, and Fark are supported.
2. Bias information on more than 2,000 news/media sites.
3. Information on satire, fake news, and extremely unreliable sources.
4. Article specific fact checking lookup that displays the number of factual statements that are disputed.
5. Information on around 8,000 charities.
6. Automated detection of some fake local news sites (i.e actionews3.com, channel22news.com, etc).
All site information queries are done locally, meaning no information is sent to me about your browsing activities at any time.
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This add-on needs to:
- Access browser tabs
- Access your data for sites in the reddit.com domain
- Access your data for sites in the fark.com domain
- Access your data for sites in the counter.social domain
- Access your data for sites in the slashdot.org domain
- Access your data for factlayer.azurewebsites.net
- Access your data for digg.com
- Access your data for slashdot.org
- Access your data for getpocket.com
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- Version
- 2.0.0.0
- Size
- 345.25 KB
- Last updated
- 3 years ago (Apr 10, 2022)
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- License
- GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Release notes for 2.0.0.0
Large refactor to convert code base to vanilla JS and remove code that writes HTML strings directly to the DOM.
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