Geeky Moment: ‘Dispute Finder’ Firefox Extension

Intel Labs has created a new Firefox extension called ‘Dispute Finder‘ that will highlight text snippets from various news sources and ‘Dispute Finder’ will show the user sources from alternate view points. Via Firefox:

Not all the information on the web is true on unbiased. On many issues there are many different opinions, but a web page will often only give one side of the story. Dispute Finder lets you know when what you are reading is disputed, and what the alternative points of view are.

As you browse the web, Dispute Finder looks for disputed claims. If it finds any then it highlights them. Clicking on a disputed claim brings up evidence for and against that claim found by other users of Dispute Finder.

The dispute finder web page allows you to mark new disputed claims and see what disputed claims have been marked by other users.

And According to NewScientist.com:

The research team aims to add extra levels of sophistication to future versions of the add-on. For instance, at the moment all disputes are treated equally regardless of the perceived authority of the sources quoted. But in future, users will have the chance to selectively display only the disputes based on evidence from widely respected sources. “You might want to know if a statement has been disputed by an article in the New York Times, but not if it’s been disputed in a little-read blog,” Ennals says.

As a proprietor of ‘a little read blog’ I take issue with …. Anyhow, this extension sounds interesting.

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