inspiration
We realized that newsreaders are often unaware of the leanings of the news sources they read. These biases, both intentional and unintentional, can drastically color the way news should be read and interpreted. While there are already websites tracking news bias, these bias ratings are neither updated frequently nor verified by actual newsreaders. Most importantly, bias ratings aren't decided in the best place--while one is reading an actual article
what it does
The extension gives readers the ability to see bias and give feed back on how reliable the news source is and how bias it is
How we built it
We used a variety of technologies. For the client side, we used HTML, CSS, Javascript + jQuery. We used the chrome browser extension API to add functionality, such as the popup that appears on each page. On the backend we used nodejs for the server and sqlite3 for the database. We chose sqlite3 because it was easy to implement in the moment, though this component could easily be swapped for a MySQL server.
Challenges we ran into
Time. For most of us, this was our first hackathon.
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