Less than 50% of people said they trust the news they use. This means that there are constant anxieties regarding the credibility of the information they get on a day-to-day basis, and struggles toward a well-informed population due to the exhaustive nature of finding the right information.
ClarifAI is a Chrome web extension that enhances a user’s information-gathering experience by identifying pieces of misinformation and injecting an explanation of correct information with AI API calls. Alongside the fact-checking, a content summary is generated at the top of the page, an adblocker is built in, and there are options to make the website more visually accessible, giving users the ability to customize aspects like the font, font size, and background color of the website.