About This Project
What you see on this page is currently a work in progress. It is a prototype. A lot will be added before it is ready for actual use. Did I mention it isn't close to finished yet?
As with most tools, the largest challenges are not technical but are social. With that in mind, what you see on this page is just a tech demo for an idea that will have a full demo in the coming month. The goggles work in many places, but they aren't that smart yet. Facts are not scraped, and associations with content aren't being systematically generated just yet.
Follow me at @slifty to get updates about the project.
The Demo
Apply Truth Goggles <-- Bookmark this link! (Drag it to your bookmarks)
While advising his Fox News viewers to talk about inflation at their Thanksgiving dinners, Glenn Beck falsely claimed that the government removed food and energy prices from its measure of inflation to hide rising prices, that a survey showed economists are “worried” about inflation, and that Social Security recipients are not receiving a cost-of-living adjustment because the government “changed the calculation.”
False statements appear red.
Mostly false statements appear yellow.
Mostly true statements appear blue.
True statements appear green.
It also works elsewhere on the internet! Check out any of these articles:
and try running the bookmarklet again.