What it does:
This extension was created with the goal of attempting to judge whether an article was politically biased.
How it works:
The extension takes in the URL of the current webpage. It then searches the webpage for the article and then finds the finds author and political buzzwords based on a precompiled list. The list of political buzzwords are from https://www.isidewith.com/polls. Once it has found a word it the extension then tries to determine the context the word is used in. Then it assigns a score to the word based on whether it is conservative or liberal. After it has found all of the buzzwords and judged them, it generates the final score by taking the ( score / total buzz words ) * 100. A positive score means that the article has a liberal bias and if the score is negative then the article has a conservative bias. If the score is zero, then it has no bias.
This project is open source and we are looking for improvements and new ideas.
https://github.com/d3bird/PAC-meter
Authors
Scott Crawford
Joey Cunningham
Tim Minear
Jesse Runner
Extore is a team of professionals who are passionate about creating extensions for web browsers. This devotion also gives us opportunity to appreciate work of other people. We get inspired by useful, open source extensions made by developers all over the world. Our strong belief is that one should share helpful add-ons with others. That’s why we’d like to present you our ever-growing list of favourite extensions that have inspired us. Moreover, as you probably have already learned, sometimes struggling for the best brings an end to the good. Talking about add-ons it often turns out that an upgrade is worse then previous version. Also it can become really tricky to get back to the beloved version of your favourite extension. That’s why we’re going to make not only the latest, but all versions of our favourite (and we hope yours too) add-ons available for download. No more compromises, just stick to the version you really like!
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