CaptainFact

Collaborative, real-time fact checking. Free and open source.

What is CaptainFact?

CaptainFact is a potent Chrome extension designed to bring fact-checking to your fingertips. It harnesses the power of collaboration, creating a community where users can engage in verifying the credibility of online data. By sourcing, voting, and chatting about facts, users work together to sift through the vast wealth of information on the internet. The tool ensures that the data we interact with is accurate and reliable. As an open-source project under the GPL3 license, it fosters transparency and encourages community involvement in its development.

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Extension stats

By: https://captainfact.io

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Users: 4,000+

Rating: 4.90 (10)

Version: 2.0.0 (Last updated: 2023-04-19)

Creation date: 2020-04-21

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage

Host permissions:

*://m.youtube.com/*
*://www.youtube.com/*
*://*.captainfact.io/*/*

Size: 1.41M

Email: co*****@captainfact.io

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 16297 ▼ 56

Other rankings

#297 in News & Weather ▲ 2 #47 in fact keyword 9 ▼ 2

Other platforms

CaptainFact (Beta) (v1.0.0)

4.61

(18) 1,059+

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Extension summary

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Internet is filled with rich and abundant data. Information travels fast and we don't have the time to check that everything we see and hear is correct.

CaptainFact is all about people debating and helping each other to verify that data by sourcing it, voting and chatting about facts.

This extension is open source and published under GPL3 license on Github: https://github.com/CaptainFact/captain-fact-extension

User reviews

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Pros

Effective fact-checking during YouTube videos
Improves the quality of information available online
Integrates well with YouTube
Creative concept with great execution
Public utility, beneficial for users

Cons

Lacks a mobile version for Firefox
Limited to YouTube content for now

Most mentioned

Great concept and execution
Live fact-checking is valuable
Need for Firefox mobile version

Recent reviews

Great idea, great execution! Very creative)

Igor Lebedev, 2024-02-02

Concept génial

Adrien Choussat, 2020-11-17

Le problème du factchecking aujourd'hui : des médias écrivent de supers articles pour expliquer qu'une information est mauvaise, mais personne ne les voit ! Cette extension donne de la visibilité aux vérifications pour améliorer la qualité des info sur Youtube. J'espère que ça fonctionnera bientôt pour tout type de contenu.