Chrome-Stats extension
PolitEcho
Visualize the political leaning of your Facebook friends.
Total ratings for PolitEcho
3.48
(Rating count:
29)
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Pros
- Instructive and insightful graphics.
- Impressive speed.
- Easy to install, no junkware.
Cons
- Stopped working and developer is not responding.
- Categories for news sources and political figures are considered inaccurate.
- The app can be unreliable as it only takes into account of well-known US sources.
Most mentioned
- The tool provides a visual representation of political leanings.
- Helpful in understanding user's own bias.
- Classification of news outlets and their associated political bias is questionable.
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Recent reviews for PolitEcho
Recent rating average:
2.20
All time rating average:
3.48
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| Date | Author | Rating | Lang | Comment |
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| 2022-11-22 |  |
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LEANED LEFT!!! THEN STOPPED WORKING- GEEZE EVERYTHING IS LIBERAL ON CHROME EXTENSIONS! | |
| 2021-09-01 |  |
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Loved it when it worked. Has stopped working recently and no answer from developer. | |
| 2020-11-10 |  |
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It's a neat extension at most. Don't take it seriously or you're gonna shove yourself into a bubble very quickly. | |
| 2019-10-30 | jake wright |
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You know its loaded because they rate the average news agency as being in the middle. | |
| 2019-10-31 |  |
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en | You know its loaded because they rate the average news agency as being in the middle. |
| 2017-04-14 |  |
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It doesn't work. My news feed language is set to English, and I am surfing on Chrome, yet I am still being told my data cannot be accessed. The application is a good idea, but it obviously needs more work. | |
| 2017-04-14 |  |
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en | It doesn't work. My news feed language is set to English, and I am surfing on Chrome, yet I am still being told my data cannot be accessed. The application is a good idea, but it obviously needs more work. |
| 2017-04-13 |  |
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Very cool idea, good job doing what you've done. Improvements and suggestions: 1. where am i in the data set, compared to my friends? 2. not sure what the "confidence" level is meant to represent... it's not explained anywhere that I could find. 3. the data pages should have some explainers of the data/graphs being shown... what you have is not enough. 4. seems some of the FB pages are not categorized properly... and if you think they are then an explainer of how pages are judged would be helpful. thanks for creating what you have o far and I encourage lots of improvements. Cheers! | |
| 2017-04-11 |  |
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Really cool idea, but unfortunately very underdeveloped so far. The biggest problem is that it only takes account of very well known news sources and political figures, and almost only US ones. If most of your friends aren't from the US, there's little point using this app. It's also very crude in the way it categorizes things on the left/right spectrum. Apparently The Onion is as far-left as possible and Bernie Sanders is no more left-wing than Obama. Inexplicably, alternative medicine/fake science sites like Natural News are classified as right-wing. It's also a bit misleading that mainstream, moderately liberal sources like CNN, Time, the Washington Post and the New York Times are classified as far to the left as they are. Where, then, would one put democratic socialism, let alone full-on communism? | |
| 2017-04-10 |  |
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John Stossel brought this app to my attention. I've always tried to keep my friends balanced. I want to hear both sides...usually the truth is somewhere in the middle lol. I'm almost completely even with my friends, so awesome! |
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