BRENDA: Browser Extension for Fake News Detection
This addresses the challenge of scaling fact-checking for end-users affected by fake news, though it is incremental as it applies existing methods in a new tool.
The paper tackles the problem of misinformation by proposing BRENDA, a browser extension that automates credibility assessments of false claims using a deep neural network, presenting results with evidence to users without leaving the webpage.
Misinformation such as fake news has drawn a lot of attention in recent years. It has serious consequences on society, politics and economy. This has lead to a rise of manually fact-checking websites such as Snopes and Politifact. However, the scale of misinformation limits their ability for verification. In this demonstration, we propose BRENDA a browser extension which can be used to automate the entire process of credibility assessments of false claims. Behind the scenes BRENDA uses a tested deep neural network architecture to automatically identify fact check worthy claims and classifies as well as presents the result along with evidence to the user. Since BRENDA is a browser extension, it facilities fast automated fact checking for the end user without having to leave the Webpage.