Inspiration

  • In today's information age, the overwhelming amount of online content makes discerning truth from fiction increasingly difficult.
  • To combat the widespread nature of fake news, we created a Chrome Extension that has the primary purpose to help combat misinformation.
  • This seamlessly integrates into your browsing experience, giving a reality check to the content you see.
  • The Following softwares were used to build:
    • AI: Utilizes deep learning in Pytorch
    • Backend: Firebase was used to store all information
    • Chrome Web Extension: Made with HTML, CSS and Javascript
  • Designing code to support dynamic content with many elements was confusing to implement and needed to be designed from the get-go.
  • Balancing the functions for both text and images was fairly challenging too.
  • Overall, we are proud that this powerful extension has a large capacity, and has many elements to work as an extension
  • We learned to integrate DOM manipulation in the frontend, backend, and training an AI model to integrate them all together in a chrome extension
  • In the future, we aim to deploy a free version (current) and paid version (checks even without user highlighting) for the public

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