Issues in Digital Media

      To combat fake news and educate people on other perspectives, we could create a Google Chrome extension that you can download onto your devices that can verify the validity of news media.  It would give posts and news articles a ranking, with 1 being the least trustworthy and 10 being the most trustworthy.  It would do this by finding the number of news articles that have the same story.  A lot of news sites reporting the same thing means it's more likely to be true, while if many other sites are reporting the opposite, then this is a good indicator that the story is false. 

 

      In addition, the extension will provide other news stories about the same topic and allow the users to compare these articles/posts.  This way the user will not only have one perspective and so they will not live in a news bubble or echo chamber that just solidifies their ideals.