Promote the need for sincere information for a democracy based on trust

Category: Initiatives

Users import an article’s link onto the website. Once uploaded, they can comment on the article. Articles already present in the platform’s database can also be commented on by all users. Each sentence of the articles can be commented and annotated according to whether they are true, false, satirical, biased, ...

Chrome and Firefox extension, based on an artificial intelligence tool named “Walt”, that aims to help users better understand what they read on the Internet. The goal is to identify cases in which articles are not written for the significance of their content, but rather to elicit a reaction, and a click, from the reader. The site insists that its AI does not detect if the article contains facts that are true or false, but only provides guidance on the possible biases that a statement could contain.

A web extension that allows users to see if the web page they are visiting has been criticized elsewhere on the internet. If a criticism has been reported, it is then possible to consult the web page that issued it in order to learn more about the content of the original page. The aim here is to develop Internet users’ critical thinking by providing them with differing opinions on a web page’s content. The extension encourages the confrontation of ideas, since it does not state which site is best.

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