Fake News Detector

Real-time fake news detection — hover paragraphs, select text, or right-click images!

As of June 2026, Fake News Detector has users in the Education category.

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1.1.0
Manifest V3

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About

🔍 FAKE NEWS DETECTOR — Powered by RoBERTa AI

Automatically detect misinformation while you browse the web!

✅ FEATURES:
- Hover over any paragraph for instant fake news detection
- Real-time AI analysis using RoBERTa transformer model
- 98% accuracy tested on 50+ diverse articles
- 100% accuracy on adversarial fake news
- Source credibility checking (Reuters, BBC, WHO etc.)
- LIME explainability — shows WHY content is fake
- Web verification against Google Fact Check database
- Multilingual support (Hindi, Spanish, French + 16 more)
- Works on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and news sites
- Right-click any image to detect fake news in images (OCR)
- Select any text for instant analysis

🧠 HOW IT WORKS:
1. Hover over any news paragraph
2. Wait 1 second
3. See REAL/FAKE verdict with confidence score
4. Click "Why?" for detailed explanation

🔬 TECHNOLOGY:
- RoBERTa transformer model (125M parameters)
- ONNX INT8 quantization for fast inference
- Continuous learning from daily news collection
- Pattern detection for subtle misinformation
- Temperature-calibrated confidence scores

📊 PERFORMANCE:
- 98% accuracy on comprehensive test suite
- 100% on obvious fake news
- 100% on subtle fake news  
- 100% on adversarial attacks
- Supports 19+ languages

🌍 SUPPORTED SITES:
News websites, social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram),
blogs, and any webpage with text content.

Free to use. No account required. No data collected.
Privacy-first design.

Built as part of M.Tech AI research at MNNIT Allahabad.

Technical

Version
1.1.0
Manifest
V3
Size
29.14KiB
Min Chrome
88
Languages
1
Featured
No

Metadata

ID
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Developer ID
ua0481b93d824be903ae344a2702093e0
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
May 16, 2026
Last Updated (Store)
May 16, 2026
Last Scraped
Jun 13, 2026
Website

Data sourced from the Chrome Web Store · last verified Jun 13, 2026.