News Detection
Balanced News Extension will be automatically turned on when you are on a news webside included in our sources. Our icon will light up as a reminder.
This tool is created by a group of university students who care deeply about making critical thinking easier for everyone. The global spread of political polarization is a concerning issue which threatens the stability of out society.
By making news from the other side a click away, Balanced News aims to simplify the process of seeking out news from the other side to bridge the deepening knowledge gap which contributes to political polarization.
More features will become available in the upcoming releases!
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Balanced News Extension will be automatically turned on when you are on a news webside included in our sources. Our icon will light up as a reminder.
Once you click on the lit-up icon, Balanced News will evaluate the partisan score for the current site. You can also learn how the partisan score was calculated.
With just one click, Balanced News can recommend an article on the same topic from a channel with the opposite partisan rating through a push notification.
Balanced News leverages the safety provided by Serverless Computation and API Gateway on Amazon Web Service, always protecting your privacy.
Learn more about confirmation bias and the “steel man” argument
Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for information that confirms one's existing beliefs.
As most news media nowadays have political biases, one’s beliefs are reinforced by repetition when they only follow one news source, insulating them from rebuttal.
The “steel man” requires one to find the best form of their opponent's argument and then argue with this.
To build the virtue of critical thinking, one great excercise one can do is called the “steel man” argument. This requires one to completely understand the opponent first, and the result is a stance that holds up to scrutiny.
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