# main-currents

> Detect propaganda and coordinated manipulation in online discourse

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/main-currents](https://chrome-stats.com/d/main-currents)

## Overview

- **ID:** `main-currents`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** main-currents
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,alerts-updates
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 0.1.113
- **Last updated:** 2026-04-13
- **First published:** 2026-03-24
- **Size:** 801 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/main-currents/)
- **Website:** [https://main-currents.news](https://main-currents.news/)

## Description

Main Currents analyzes news articles and social media comments to detect coordinated propaganda campaigns, artificial amplification, and manipulation in online discourse. It highlights suspicious content directly in your browser as you browse Reddit, Twitter/X, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads, and Hacker News.
Think of it as an ad-blocker for propaganda — helping you identify foreign influence operations, bot-like behavior, and coordinated inauthentic activity so you can make more informed decisions about the content you consume.

## Rankings

- #95,385 — Overall
- #214 — currency
- #236 — torrent

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `scripting`
- `alarms`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `*.reddit.com`
- `*.facebook.com`
- `*.twitter.com`
- `*.x.com`
- `*.bsky.app`
- `*.google.com`
- `news.google.com`
- `*.linkedin.com`
- `news.ycombinator.com`
- `*.youtube.com`
- `*.threads.net`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

> Some risk analysis details are omitted from this free response. [Upgrade to view the full analysis](https://chrome-stats.com/pricing).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/main-currents)