Transparent media is a chrome browser extension to help provide information on the media bias rating of news sites you read online and track your media consumption habits overtime. The extension uses data from allsides.com and mediabiasfactcheck.com to rate news sites on their media bias and quality of source material. The extension delivers rating information to you on a popup window when you read an article and by adding stickers beside google search results. The extension can records the ratings of the articles you read over time and provide information about your media consumption. All these features can be turned on and off on the options page.
Clone this repository into a known location on your computer.
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Download it as a zip from the repo by going to code -> Download ZIP and extract to a known location on your computer.
Type "chrome://extensions" into a new tab and press enter.
Make sure developer mode is enabled on chrome by clicking the "developer mode" switch on the top right of the extensions page you opened
Click on "Load unpacked" and navigate to the folder containing the extension you cloned/unzipped and press "select folder"
Once extension is loaded, go to the chrome extension icon on the top right of the chrome window (should be the jigsaw puzzle icon), click on it to open the drop down menu, and pin the newly added extension.
To test if installation was successful, go to www.reuters.com and see how the extension icon changes on the top right of the window. If it shows a "C" in the icon and the popup is showing that the news site is BBC with a political bias of center, then the extension has been installed correctly.
- Extension works on other sites commonly used to browse news (Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Duckduckgo).
- Extension allows user to select which sites it can function on.