Trusted Times

Trusted Times

This extension identifies fake & unreliable news and helps to identify media bias. It's the only extension that helps you identify bias (if any) in each news article, using Artificial Intelligence and advanced machine learning algorithms.

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What is Trusted Times?

Trusted Times is a Firefox add-on that utilizes AI and machine learning to detect fake news, unreliable sources, and media bias. It provides a comprehensive analysis of news articles, including historical biases of reporters and news websites.

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Stats
Stats date:
Users: 10 ▼ -1
Rating: 1.33 (3)
Version: 3.0.0.3 (Last updated: 2017-05-19)
Creation date: 2017-04-26
Weekly download count: NaN
Firefox on Android: Yes
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
  • tabs
  • storage
Size: 2.23M
Email: Click to see
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Other platforms

Not available on Chrome
Not available on Edge
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Summary

This extension identifies fake & unreliable news and helps to identify media bias. Trusted Times is a unique Google Chrome extension that detects fake and unreliable news. It's the only extension that helps you identify bias (if any) in each news article.

Using advanced machine learning algorithms, it also presents additional analysis of any news article to show a reporter’s and news source’s bias, if any.

It helps you to read any news article like a pro.

Trusted Times is different from other fake news detectors because:

  • It screens the largest selection of local, state and national news websites and blogs in United States.

  • Only extension that provides an ability to treat each journalist and news article independently – as opposed to classifying an entire newspaper’s political bias as “left, center or right”.

  • Identifies if the article is fake, unreliable, verified or mainstream media news

  • Provides a summary of verified and mainstream media news articles

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Safety
Risk impact

Trusted Times is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Trusted Times if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Trusted Times has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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