PolitEcho

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Visualize the political leaning of your Facebook friends.

Latest reviews

• (2022-11-22) Shannon Knight: LEANED LEFT!!! THEN STOPPED WORKING- GEEZE EVERYTHING IS LIBERAL ON CHROME EXTENSIONS!
• (2021-09-01) Stacia Harger: Loved it when it worked. Has stopped working recently and no answer from developer.
• (2020-11-10) Little Dog: It's a neat extension at most. Don't take it seriously or you're gonna shove yourself into a bubble very quickly.
• (2019-10-31) That Guy: You know its loaded because they rate the average news agency as being in the middle.
• (2017-04-14) Camron Watlington (Cam): It doesn't work. My news feed language is set to English, and I am surfing on Chrome, yet I am still being told my data cannot be accessed. The application is a good idea, but it obviously needs more work.
• (2017-04-13) Liza Bender: Very cool idea, good job doing what you've done. Improvements and suggestions: 1. where am i in the data set, compared to my friends? 2. not sure what the "confidence" level is meant to represent... it's not explained anywhere that I could find. 3. the data pages should have some explainers of the data/graphs being shown... what you have is not enough. 4. seems some of the FB pages are not categorized properly... and if you think they are then an explainer of how pages are judged would be helpful. thanks for creating what you have o far and I encourage lots of improvements. Cheers!
• (2017-04-11) James Drayton-Losotov: Really cool idea, but unfortunately very underdeveloped so far. The biggest problem is that it only takes account of very well known news sources and political figures, and almost only US ones. If most of your friends aren't from the US, there's little point using this app. It's also very crude in the way it categorizes things on the left/right spectrum. Apparently The Onion is as far-left as possible and Bernie Sanders is no more left-wing than Obama. Inexplicably, alternative medicine/fake science sites like Natural News are classified as right-wing. It's also a bit misleading that mainstream, moderately liberal sources like CNN, Time, the Washington Post and the New York Times are classified as far to the left as they are. Where, then, would one put democratic socialism, let alone full-on communism?
• (2017-04-10) Lorrie Schu: John Stossel brought this app to my attention. I've always tried to keep my friends balanced. I want to hear both sides...usually the truth is somewhere in the middle lol. I'm almost completely even with my friends, so awesome!
• (2017-03-08) Gail Cammero Reilly: While confident there is a margin for error, I found this to be more accurate than not - I like the way it can keep a user up to speed on their own bias. Thanks! Great extension.
• (2016-12-21) Xander: i like the idea but id like to assign values myself. most on my friends are far more left than liberal and theres no reflection of that here also some pages are miss labeled
• (2016-12-07) Brett Jelinek: I see it shows The Free Thought Project and Natural News as red/conservative, while it lists Washington Post, New York Times, The Onion, CNN, Time, and more as dark blue/very liberal. In fact, someone who only likes The Onion will be on the very far left. Someone who only likes Time and CNN will be almost right next to them. And then it also counts all kinds of fake news sites like Collective Evolution, which shouldn't be factored in at all. This is an interesting tool, but the way they categorize the websites is wrong and, without a careful read of the results, will give you a very skewed perception. Until they fix thix, this tool is not simply defective, it's deceptive.
• (2016-12-06) Works fast! Impressed.
• (2016-12-03) Devon B: Easy to install, no junkware, just informative and insightful graphics that make understanding your social structures so much easier. Highly reccomend (Also i'm uninstalling this when I'm done to be safe)
• (2016-12-03) Steve Dean: super insightful and beautifully rendered
• (2016-12-02) Raj Vir: Fantastic app. Really surprised at how insightful it was into my friends.
• (2016-12-02) Mark Browne: Wow - This shows that I need to get out more!

Latest issues

• (2023-04-09, v:1.0.4) Jose Arkadion: CONSISTENT ERROR MESSAGE
  I KEEP RECEIVING ONLY A MESSAGE - THIS MESSAGE. "There was an error accessing your news feed data. Please ensure that you are logged in to Facebook on Chrome and that your news feed language is set to English." I CHECKED ALL OF THAT. SO, WHAT'S UP. ANY NEW UPDATES OUT THERE AS OF TODAY, APRIL 8, 2023??????? THANKS.
• (2021-01-04, v:1.0.4) A A: No longer showing "Political leanings of your news feed"
  So appreciate this extension for educational purposes - however, the second part seems to be broken, where it creates larger bubbles based on those who show up more in my news feed. Is this something that can be fixed, or is this a new restriction on data from Facebook? Thank you.
• (2020-09-03, v:1.0.4) Jacob Olson: Can't see results
  The data from my facebook friends only shows up on the very bottom of my screen and I can hardly see it. Anyway to change it?
• (2020-02-27, v:1.0.4) Brian Jones: Next update/release is scheduled for....?
  Next update/release is scheduled for....?
• (2020-01-30, v:1.0.4) HV: Help
  Everytime I try to use this extension, it says"There was an error accessing your news feed data. Please ensure that you are logged in to Facebook on Chrome and that your news feed language is set to English." I've already made sure the news feed language is English and I used chrome when I get on Facebook.
• (2017-05-31, v:1.0.4) trying to read the "other" side
  can I see this site if I don't have (& don't want) a facebook act?
• (2017-05-10, v:1.0.4) David Johnson: Also got the error about accessing news feed
  Like the others, I also got an error about it unable to access my feed. Which is weird because it had a progress bar up for a while so it was doing something with my feed...
• (2017-05-09, v:1.0.4) jaredjeya: "Error accessing your news feed"
  I'm having the same problem everyone else was having: There was an error accessing your news feed data. Please ensure that you are logged in to Facebook on Chrome and that your news feed language is set to English. I've even got facebook open in a tab in the background. What's strange is it takes the time to "analyse" my feed, and then gives me the error at the end.
• (2017-04-11, v:1.0.4) Mike Gurecki: can't download
  unknown network error.
• (2017-03-19, v:1.0.3) Question about possible settings
  When I try to use the extension, it brings up the error "There was an error accessing your news feed data. Please ensure that you are logged in to Facebook on Chrome and that your news feed language is set to English." I've made sure the news feed language is in English and I used chrome when I get on Facebook. It is possible that I have a couple of over-seas friends who post in a different language which could be messing up the analysis. Is there a way to develop a setting to exclude these people in the analysis? Thanks!
• (2017-03-17, v:1.0.3) M CC: Error
  Everytime I try to use this extension, it brings up "There was an error accessing your news feed data. Please ensure that you are logged in to Facebook on Chrome and that your news feed language is set to English." I've already made sure the news feed language is English and I used chrome when I get on Facebook. What is the issue?
• (2017-03-07, v:1.0.3) Anett Hoppe: Privacy Policy?
  Hi! I clicked around for a bit and could not find a privacy policy. Given that you ask access to quite a few data points, I would love to have some reassurance what is (not) done with them. Could you give me a hint where to find some statement on that? (I guess, some info for people who are not able to interpret the source code would be nice.)
• (2017-03-04, v:1.0.3) conrad ventur: Can't switch accounts
  When you sign out of Facebook and sign into a new account, it still gives the info for the original account.
• (2016-12-14, v:1.0.3) Elizabeth Nathaniel: Stuck at 99%
  Progress gets to 99% and then never goes further.
• (2016-12-07, v:1.0.3) Tony Michael: Ext. won't download
  I keep getting this error: "This item is already being downloaded into Chrome"