The editors of Pensito Review take for granted that our sophisticated readers know the difference between real and fake news, fact and fiction, honest commentary and nativist propaganda. But maybe you know a less-sophisticated soul who has fallen prey to the fake news in their Facebook feed.
Tell him about fIB: Let’s Stop Living a Lie. It’s a Google Chrome extension that scrapes fake news from your Facebook feed that was created by four Princeton students engaged in a weekend hackathon. The extension works in two ways:
Content-consumption: Our chrome-extension goes through your facebook feed in real time as you browse it and verifies the authenticity of posts. These posts can be status updates, images or links. Our backend AI checks the facts within these posts and verifies them using image recognition, keyword extraction, and source verification and a twitter search to verify if a screenshot of a twitter update posted is authentic. The posts then are visually tagged on the top right corner in accordance with their trust score. If a post is found to be false, the AI tries to find the truth and shows it to you.
Content-creation: Each time a user posts/shares content, our chat bot uses a webhook to get a call. This chat bot then uses the same backend AI as content consumption to determine if the new post by the user contains any unverified information. If so, the user is notified and can choose to either take it down or let it exist.
Your less-intelligent friend can find fIB in Chrome extensions. That way, you won’t have to listen to him babble about these fake stories that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg isn’t worried about:
- Denzel Washington backs Trump in the Most Epic Way Possible
- BREAKING: Pope Francis Just Backed Trump, Released Incredible Statement Why — SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE
- FBI Agent Suspected in Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide
- George Soros: I’m Going to Bring Down the United States by Funding Black Hate Groups
- Germany Folds to Shariah Law — Allows Child Marriages
- Doctor Who Treated Hillary’s Blood Clots Found Dead
