Art 80F The Lunch Club Section H
Project 7: Fake News and Social Media Posts
How to Foil Fake News Posts
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.