Meantime Browser Plugin

A browser plugin that augments your news by detecting bias.

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A browser plugin that augments your news by detecting bias.

3 followers

Get a more accurate picture of the world you inhabit by using our browser plugin to detect the bias of any article you are reading and to show you articles with a different bias on the same story.

Launch tags:Browser Extensions•Chrome Extensions•News

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Meantime Browser Plugin

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Hej Hej 👋 I'm Will Sackfield, Founder of Meantime Technologies. I've made a browser plugin that detects the bias and fact checks any article you are reading, as well as sending you a weekly email telling you how biased your news consumption was. 📖 The Story: A while ago I realized that the news I was reading wasn’t giving me an accurate depiction of what was going on in the world, and the more I reviewed this problem the more I realized that its actually really hard for an individual to come up with an unbiased article on a particular story that is currently going on. In order to remedy this, I decided to make a product that would tell me the bias of any article I read, and give me options to see the story from other biased perspectives. That leaves me informed while still giving me the freedom to make up my own opinion. ⭐ Key Features: ✔️ Bias Detection: See the articles bias and other articles for the same story with different biases. ✔️ Weekly Emails: Receive an email every week showing you how biased your news consumption is, and any bad facts you may have been exposed to. ✔️ Fact Checks: Highlights any fact checks (true or false) in the article you are reading. ✔️ Report Facts: If you see something wrong in the article you are reading, you can request a fact check directly with Meantime. 🔧 How it works: ⚙️ Per Article Analysis: Meantime does not determine an articles bias based on the publisher, instead each article is analyzed with a model to determine its bias regardless of the publisher. ⚙️ Bias Spectrum: Bias is determined by a numerical scale, giving the users of this plugin the ability to see a very fine grained spectrum of biased takes. I would love it if you gave this a try and told me what you think, or any improvements you would make. Cheers.

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5yr ago

@sackfield Incredible idea and amazing execution! Started using it and so far the experience has been great! If you don't mind me asking, I'm pretty curious about how fact-checking actually works. If you would be able to share any technical details or maybe point me to an article/blog post on the topic, that would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

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5yr ago

Meantime Browser Plugin

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@alexkorzh The fact checking right now is a bit rudimentary. It has a list of fact checks that refreshes daily, then does a simple nearest neighbour analysis over universal sentence encoders to see whether the sentence is "close" to what it is trying to fact check. I am building something better that uses Triples, Graph2Vec and then a classifier on top of that which should be much better at finding lies/truth that are differently worded but relay the same information.

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5yr ago

@sackfield Got it, very interesting! Thanks a lot! One last question, if you don't mind. How exactly is the fact check database updated? Are you planning relying solely on the data submitted by users using the plugin, or do you also use a third-party data provider?

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5yr ago