https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UlplDSG_WD2wvL-K_AlfSp9-_CwZCbnv/view?usp=sharing
- To curb the spread of fake news, we wanted to give the user a passive nudge.
- This nudge would be in the form of summaries of news articles corresponding to the event the user is posting about crawled from the web.
- This is displayed just beneath the actual tweet the user is about to post.
- That’s it, the extension does not instruct neither recommends the user certain changes, but rather just passively lays out useful facts in an easy to read and comprehensible way.
- This way, we encourage self aware fact checking, and since real time automated fact checking is a difficult task, the proposed solution encourages user participation in tackling an otherwise hard problem
Semester 6, PSOSM, IIITD