Centr: Political Bias Detector

Use Deep Learning to detect political bias in your news!

Extension stats

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-10-22 due to Chrome Web Store policy violation
Users: 173
Rating: 3.00 (6)
Version: 1.0.0.5 (Last updated: 2018-08-10)
Creation date: 2018-08-10
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very high risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
Size: 1.54M

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Extension summary

Centr is a Chrome Extension that allows you to understand the bias of articles you read. This bias is not tied to the site, but to the actual text of the article!

Centr scans the article you are reading and generates a Political Bias score from a variety of statistical and deep learning methods. 🤓

After scanning your article, Centr displays a graph visualizing the bias of the article. 📈

The graph provided has 5 categories along the x-axis:

Left: Strong liberal bias Left Leaning: Slightly liberal bias Center: Congrats! The news source you are reading is fairly objective & unbiased. Keep reading! Right Leaning: Slight conservative bias Right: Strong conservative bias Scores represent the article only, not the overall bias of the news source itself.

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User reviews

Extension not updated in two years. Website dead. Verdict: Abandoned. Wish Google would proactively remove the thousands of other abandoned extensions. My guess is many, maybe even this one, are school projects and the authors never return to remove them once trhe class ends. Any extension that hasn't been updated in 4-8 months should be automatically removed.
by Todd Carter, 2020-09-12

Really wanted to like this, but the fact that it wouldn't actually give a result destroys the purpose. Once the app is perfected, then I'll be back
by Branin Podolski, 2019-11-10

Well this fails the test completely. Labels left wing news outlets like MSNBC as right winged and right winged like fox as left leaning. Completely wrong. Interesting in theory, completely failed in practice. Also the "hows does this work" gives a 403 error
by Artex Jay, 2019-08-15
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Centr: Political Bias Detector requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Centr: Political Bias Detector is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.

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