BUILTArchived
TrustLens
A browser extension that flags questionable content while you read.
Snapshot
- My role
- Developer
- Timeframe
- Personal project
- Status
- Archived
The problem
A partially implemented Chrome extension analysing page content in real time to surface likely misinformation.
How the project ran
I owned
- Built the content-analysis pass against the Chrome extension APIs.
Constraints
- Judging credibility automatically is a hard problem, and the accuracy needed to be useful was beyond what the approach could reach.
Outcome
- Partially implemented and stopped — the classification quality was not good enough to be trustworthy, which is the one thing this kind of tool cannot get wrong.
Built with
- JavaScript
- Chrome Extension APIs
