Posted on 11/20/2016 12:39:45 PM PST by jcon40
While Facebook grapples with how to solve its “fake news” problem, two people have created extensions for Google Chrome that flag sites that they believe produce bogus stories on a regular basis.
For anyone unfamiliar with Chrome extensions, they are programs you can download within the Chrome browser that serve various purposes. For example, the AdBlocker extension is incredibly popular as it blocks almost every annoying ad on the Internet.
The first fake news extension, dubbed by creator Daniel Sieradski the “B.S. Detector,” was created shortly after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said fake news was hard to identify and didn’t really have an effect on the election. It flags articles from sites with questionable sources and appears to be relatively unbiased (for example, InfoWars and Occupy Democrats both have their sites listed and they are on opposite sides of the p
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That’s the REAL FAKE news sites that are ran by Democrat Operatives pretending to be journalist.
Agree. That’s why I posted under humor
Some enterprising software designer will flip it to libtard/Rat sites being the fake news, and away we go!!
The 'Payments' system didn't seem to be working yet, so I closed it down. Seemed like it might be a good way to send some money toward Free Republic. May try it again when the program matures. Using Brave to type this post.
Wow! that’s gonna really but a hurtin’ on abc/cbs/nbc/cnn/wapop/nyt/vox/slate/salon/yahoo/aol and a WHOLE slew of others!
+1 and it’s got built in VPN also
I find programs or add ons modified or removed from my smart phone all the time WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. Talk about pissing me off - the phone is MY PROPERTY. The software may be someone else’s property, but I do not grant anyone permission to access or change anything on my device without my express permission. But of course f#ck what I think. They do it anyway.
I feel the same way. This was on my home computer, desk top type. I don’t know if Microsoft let them sneak that in with their updates or what. However it happened it really pisses me off too.
I love it! It’s fast.
Try Brave. Written by the guy who got fired from Mozilla for contributing to Prop 8 — Brendan Eich.
Try Palemoon its an independent browser not made by one of the big companies
I just downloaded adblock plus browser for Anne Droid (my phone). Love it. So does Anne.
Chrome = Google = Censorship Trash = Fake News
Where is the flag warning that Chrome censors??
Need more alternative search engines? Where are they?
Trump won the Popular Vote by County
84 to 16 :-)
Create a correlation representing news items reported by “Fake News” sources, predating subsequent reporting by the MSM, reporting later established as a factual scoop of the MSM.
Reiterate the evidence of the MSM coordinating with political operatives to shape a narrative favorable to a Democrat perspective, selectively censoring the information available to the public, necessary for proper evaluation of alternatives.
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Now imagine adjusting the list of sites above to include "msnbc.com", "cnn.com", "washingtonpost.com", etc.
Change the name of it to "hoaxing media".
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