Know Political Bias is an easy-to-use Chrome extension that displays the political bias ratings of news organisations that its…
Know Political Bias is an easy-to-use Chrome extension that displays the political bias ratings of news organisations that its users may frequent.
The idea behind this extension is simple - we all know that some publications have political biases, which they consciously or subconsciously project to their readers through their articles and publications. All Sides has compiled an index of the bias ratings of quite a few media houses from across the globe (www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings). However, the problem remains that most people are not aware that these ratings exist, and even if they are, opening up the AllSides website and finding these ratings is too much work.
Our chrome extension tries to banish that problem. Simply pressing on the ‘Know Political Bias’ icon in the menu bar would display a popup that tells users about the political leanings (right, centre-right, centre, centre-left, left) of the website they’re currently on.
This extension was built by Swayam Sidh Tripathy and Jai Relan. In case you’re facing any problem, or you have some ideas on improving the extension, feel free to drop an email to them at [email protected] or [email protected].
All the data for the chrome extension was sourced from All Sides. We obtained this data from an open-source repository of Github and then used the values from row #1 and #2 for the current extension. We plan on integrating the other data points down the line, but that’s all for another day. We hope you enjoy using this extension - feel free to leave a review!
Latest reviews
- (2021-06-29) dipra: This is amazing!!! So helpful:)
- (2021-06-29) sanskriti tripathy: Great Extension! have been using it while reading the news regularly and have loved it Easy to install and use
- (2021-04-27) Suvitti Khurana: This is genuinely really helpful. I highly recommend this extension.
- (2021-04-25) Anushka Bindra: Don't know you need it until you use it. Super helpful!
- (2021-04-25) Armaan Shah: excellent, very helpful!
- (2021-04-25) Jai Sharma: Wow!! This extension really helped me differentiate between biased and unbiased news. Now I cannot live without this. Well done Swayam!
- (2021-04-25) Akaash Parthasarathy: Amazing extension. I don't know what I have been doing without it.
- (2021-04-25) Abhyudaya Singh: This has completely changed my life. Brilliant stuff. Really needed an extension like this and i'm glad i stubbled across it.
- (2021-04-24) Yajat Gulati: Works on all website! A pioneering extension, rather a weapon against the biased news media of today. Would recommend to all friends and family for ages +4.
- (2021-04-24) Samarth Pal: OMG! This is actually a life saver. These days you don't know which media is biased and this tool really helps me figure it all out. I cannot believe it actually and accurately works on all websites. This is legitimately legit! Would recommend to all those who are unbiased to figure out who around them is biased.
- (2021-04-24) Tvisha Arora: Great extension! Really meeting the need of the hour. There's never enough strength in the fight against echo chambers and irrational political biases.
- (2021-04-23) Neel Ghoshal: amazing extension. Helps me out so much. Im always confused as to which sources to trust and use. This has solved my problems
- (2021-04-22) Arnav Pandit: This is an extension you never knew you needed. But once you get it, its hard to live without! Amazing stuff by Swayam
- (2021-04-22) shaurya agarwal: Outstanding extension!!!!! extremely helpful and spot on. Helps a lot while researching and using the international news sources. Amazing work!
- (2021-04-22) vismay awal: Wow! This is a great, easy-to-use, and extremely helpful Google extension. Delivers accurate information of the website that I am on, and helps me be informed as a reader whenever I stumble across a new article! Great work!!