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- SurfSafe is a browser extension intended to help viewers spot fake news, in the form of altered or misleadingly used images. It is currently available for Google Chrome and Opera. RoBhat Labs, a company founded by two undergraduates at University of California, Berkeley, who had previously developed software that identified bot accounts on Twitter. It was released in August 2018 after a presentation at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The creators liken it to antivirus for Internet users' news feeds. The extension works by comparing images that appear in the browser to a database of images culled from a hundred trusted news or fact-checking sites, such as Time and Snopes.com. If an image has been altered or has been identified as being used to mislead elsewhere online, a pop-up informs the reader of this. SurfSafe has already received recognition by universities who provide resources to students on how to avoid fake news, such as the University of Akron School of Law. While SurfSafe has been well-received, it has also been criticized for limited effectiveness and for being a technological solution to a human problem. Neal Krawetz, an expert in network security and image analysis, has gone further, not only saying that SurfSafe does not come anywhere near doing what it claims, but recommending against installing it due to privacy concerns. (en)
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- Ash Bhat, Rohan Phadte (en)
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- The words "SurfSafe" in blue text in a sans serif typeface, with the "Safe" in boldface. On the left is a shield shape filled with what appear to be ocean waves. (en)
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- SurfSafe is a browser extension intended to help viewers spot fake news, in the form of altered or misleadingly used images. It is currently available for Google Chrome and Opera. RoBhat Labs, a company founded by two undergraduates at University of California, Berkeley, who had previously developed software that identified bot accounts on Twitter. It was released in August 2018 after a presentation at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The creators liken it to antivirus for Internet users' news feeds. (en)
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