Check

Verify breaking news online
What is Check?
Check is a Chrome extension developed by Meedan that allows users to quickly add media items from the internet to their Check team for investigation and fact-checking. It helps improve the investigative quality of citizen journalism and combat rumors and misinformation online.

Extension stats

By: Meedan
Users: 413 ▼ -7
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 2.5.13 (Last updated: 2022-09-28)
Creation date: 2020-06-28
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • contextMenus
Size: 487.42K

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Extension summary

Verify breaking news online

Chrome will ask you for permission to read your browsing history. This allows the browser extension to add your current tab to Check when you click on the browser icon. Meedan does not log any other data on our servers.

Check, developed by Meedan, is a platform for collaborative verification of digital media. The Check project builds online tools to improve the investigative quality of citizen journalism and help limit the rapid spread of rumors and misinformation online. Using Check you can quickly build a team, add social media links to fact-check them, set key questions for investigating news items gathered amongst your team.

Check’s browser extension allows you to quickly add media items that you come across on the internet to your Check team for investigation, and answer annotations concerning these items right from within the extension’s sidebar. Here’s how you can use it:

Browse the internet, and find a Tweet, YouTube video, Facebook post or an Instagram photo that you want your team to fact-check and investigate. Click the Check icon, choose one of the projects you want to add this item to, and save it.

The extension also detects if the item already exists in Check, and shows you the relevant tasks to be answered concerning it in the sidebar. Select a task, then highlight text from the page: the text will automatically populate the task answer.

You can also highlight text from an article, a web page, or an incoming WhatsApp Web message. Right click, select the Check icon, and choose one of the projects you want to add this text to.

The extension works on Tweetdeck for web and other tools that operate on the browser.

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User reviews

This extension is amazing!
by Caio Almeida, 2020-09-10
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Check requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Check has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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