Summary
This project helps foster critical thinking by showing bias/accuracy of all news sources and also helps them explore news with differing viewpoints.
Overview
A cool new Google Chrome extension that fosters critical thinking by identifying bias/accuracy of all news sources. The technology also allows users to explore specific topics with differing viewpoints that challenge the status quo.
Inspiration
I wanted to work on making people aware of their inherent bias due to the social media bubble they live in. So built a chrome extension which works on a Graph database backend and tells them similar and differing news views.
What it does
- Chrome extension shows bias/accuracy ratings of all news sites visited by user
- News articles with similar and differing view points are shown to make user aware of the bias
How we built it
- Data is fetched from Newscatcher API periodically using cron jobs. This data is then loaded on to tiger graph database to populate the graph and run cosine based similarity algos
- Basic Entity detection is done using NLP libraries
- News Data is then exposed through simple REST API application built on python flask
