Fake News Chrome Extension

Chrome Extension to help fight Online Misinformation

Objective

To create a tool that can assist members of the public to be more vigilant in the face of online misinformation. To that end, we are developing a Chrome extension that can:

• Evaluate the quality of an article
• Alert the user of clickbait or subjective content
• Suggest related fact-check “ClaimReview” articles

Examples

Fact Checking

• Here’s an article on Trump

• Clicking on “View Fact Check” brings you to

Unfortunately, many Singapore fact-checks, even those that are on Snopes, are not in the DataCommons database.

Other examples

Article Quality

Technology Stack

Backend Endpoint API:

• Python 3
• Flask + Gunicorn for serving
• Keras and TensorFlow-MKL for AI/DL inference

Threading and Batching is used to speed up inference on an Intel Skylake SP running on Google Cloud Compute Engine. A typical page takes 1 second for inference with the 3 NLP models we currently have in place.

GitHub repository for the backend.

Chrome Extension: Chrome Extension API, Bootstrap 4, JavaScript