Contributor
Amardeep Kumar

Chrome Extension for Fake News , Click-Bait and Toxic Comment Detection using AI


Mentors
Naveen, Chirag Vashist, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo, Thuvarakan
Organization
AOSSIE - Australian Open Source Software Innovation and Education

Fake news has become increasingly prevalent over the last few years. Fake news's adverse effect can be seen more and more as people’s reach to social media and to the internet is been increasing. Fake news is not only creating communal hatred but also, polarizing general elections.

Click-bait waste a lot of productive time of people. These headlines are written in a very catchy manner such that people are tempted to click these links and they don’t contain any relevant information, hence making it necessary to warn a user about click-bait.

This is a Chrome extension to detect Toxic comments, Fake News and click-bait news on news websites and social media like Facebook and Twitter.