From FAKE NEWS towards TRANSPARENCY

Watermarks on webpages that are not posting transparent news

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Inspiration

This corona virus situation. About 2 months we are reading and listening to news about corona virus. To this day I could not get the information about which method for testing positve on corona virus was used in hospitals. You get different results depending on which method was used. From results we assume what is happening in population and everything around it. There is no information about what kind of equipment they use for testing. There is no information if the manufacturer for the equipment is in all hospitals the same and which one is it. We live now in information era and providing information should be transparent, so we understand each other and can collaborate effectively.

What it does

It detects fake news and warns user about it.

There are already a lot of extensions for web browsers available on desktop. Among them there are also some extensions which detect fake news detectors. On the other side web browsers on mobile devices are lacking extensions a lot. Google Chrome for Android (the most used browser on Android) does not even have support for them. Mozilla Firefox for Android has support but there is a small development community. A lot of extensions are outdated or non existent at all. So we are thinking about using some hacks to enable this functionality.

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  • browser
  • extension
  • website
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