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Yale Students Design Chrome Extension to Combat Fake News
Yale University researchers earned a prize at the 2017 YHack competition for their development of Google Chrome extension to combat fake news.
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Researchers at Yale University have developed Open Mind, a Google Chrome extension to combat fake news that earned a prize at the 2017 YHack competition.
Developers typically identify fake news by training an algorithm with examples of both fake news and real news articles, but no algorithm to date can account for contextual information in real time that might be necessary to determine if an article is fake news.
"Our approach is to train people to become better consumers of news and to be able to empower them to know what is fake and what is real for themselves," says Yale's Stefan Uddenberg.
The researchers developed the extension to track users' browser histories while they surf the Web, analyze political bias in the articles they are reading, and provide a curated list of news that presents opposing viewpoints.
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