jacquerie / stop-the-bullshit

Blocks websites that publish fake news, and hides their posts on Facebook.

stop-the-bullshit

Blocks websites that publish fake news:

Hides their posts on Facebook:

Also includes a clustering analysis that could lead to an algorithm to automatically detect Fake News.

Manifesto

stop-the-bullshit aims to stop these websites:

[...] fake news = spam sites built from scripts consisting largely of a backcatalog nonsense stories ("Pope endorses Putin for US Presidential Election") with a one or two carefully produced fake stories as a "payload", instead of a purchasing call-to-action like other webspam sites. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12999887

I don't and won't care about websites that stretch the truth to accommodate an agenda, whichever the agenda. I also won't include satire websites, because my objective isn't teaching critical thinking, it's just filtering some spam.

Author

Jacopo Notarstefano (@Jaconotar)

License

GPLv3

stop-the-bullshit's Issues

Publish to Chrome Web Store

Firefox add-on?

Do you have any plan for porting this extension to firefox?

Suggestion: Add sites from Snopes' Field Guide to Fake News

http://www.snopes.com/2016/01/14/fake-news-sites/

Provide button to invert filter rules.

This extension would be more useful to more people If there was an option to invert the filter rules to only show "fake" news.

Suggestion: How many times have *I* posted fake news?

Would love to see a similar Facebook app, where the app reads through my feed and tells me how many times that I've (a) shared and (b) commented on "fake news". The result is this:

George, an analysis of your timeline shows that you shared XX news from "fake news" web sites. You commented on your friend's fake news shares YY times. [Share to your timeline] [Don't Share]

Stop the liberal ************

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Suggestion: Add additional sites from FakeNewsWatch

http://www.fakenewswatch.com/

Suggestion: Add additional sites from Melissa Zimdars

Original doc was here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10eA5-mCZLSS4MQY5QGb5ewC3VAL6pLkT53V_81ZyitM/preview

Look like it's being expanded upon and thus no longer available, but I'm going to look for it in its other format and see if I can post the updated link here.

Suggestion: Add additional sites from RealOrSatire

http://realorsatire.com/websites-that-are/satire/

Suggestion: Put list of websites in separate file

Rather than maintaining the list of websites in both background.js and facebook.js, why not just add all the URLs to another file, and format the info to fit what you need in the background and facebook js files.