http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/11/heres-a-browser-extension-that-will-flag-fake-news-sites.html
Chrome only at the moment.
Yes, I'm going to try it too tonight. ;-)
(via John Cole's Twitter feed)
Cheers,
Scott.
But as we enter a fraught period of American life, it’s important to make sure you (and your friends and relatives) can at least avoid being snookered by hoax, satire, fake, and just plain incompetent news sites. For people who might not be the most media-literate, here’s a handy browser extension I put together this afternoon, based on media studies professor Melissa Zimdars’s list of unreliable or misleading websites. It works like this: If you visit a URL known for producing non-news in news-like packages, you get a pop-up alert warning you. That’s it!
Chrome only at the moment.
Yes, I'm going to try it too tonight. ;-)
(via John Cole's Twitter feed)
Cheers,
Scott.