Easily identify fake and satirical news sites, as well as other questionable news sources. Adds a warning label to the top of questionable sites as well as link warnings on Facebook and Twitter.
Identifies:
- Fake News: Sources that fabricate stories out of whole cloth with the intent of pranking the public.
- Satire: Sources that provide humorous commentary on current events in the form of fake news.
- Extreme Bias: Sources that traffic in political propaganda and gross distortions of fact.
- Conspiracy Theory: Sources that are well-known promoters of kooky conspiracy theories.
- Rumor Mill: Sources that traffic in rumors, innuendo, and unverified claims.
- State News: Sources in repressive states operating under government sanction.
- Junk Science: Sources that promote pseudoscience, metaphysics, naturalistic fallacies, and other scientifically dubious claims.
- Hate Group: Sources that actively promote racism, misogyny, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination.
- Clickbait: Sources that are aimed at generating online advertising revenue and rely on sensationalist headlines or eye-catching pictures.
- Proceed With Caution: Sources that may be reliable but whose contents require further verification.
Install
- License: GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later
- Weekly downloads: 2
- Average daily users: 192
- Rating: 2.7391/5 of 23 ratings
- Created: 2016-12-06 19:18:08
- Last updated: 2016-12-26 21:53:32
- Homepage: http://bsdetector.tech
- Support site and email
- Orig: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bsdetector/
- API: {a685065d-4f22-423a-ba57-76022aed8144}