factfully

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

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By: pfisher
Users: 61 ▼ -4
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 0.3 (Last updated: 2024-05-02)
Creation date: 2024-05-02
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
Size: 10.11M

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Extension summary

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.

User reviews

Incredible website! <3 Currently though, the extension says "This site can’t be reached" Still, the website is so awesome that I have to leave 5 stars even thought the extension is useless at the moment.
by dominik milien, 2024-09-03

by Kimberly Silverman, 2024-02-28

10/10 fact checker
by Vedaant Srivastava, 2024-03-01
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Risk impact

factfully does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

factfully is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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