Roundabout: Identify & Verify Social Media Claims

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-- THE EXTENSION WILL NOT WORK ON ALREADY-OPEN TABS --

TO USE THE EXTENSION, CLICK THE POPUP WHEN ON A POST ON REDDIT, TWITTER, OR INSTAGRAM, THE EXTENSION CURRENTLY DOES NOT WORK ELSEWHERE.

Have you ever seen a post on social media that said something that seemed slightly off? Maybe a post that was clearly wrong, but you couldn't disprove it? Or maybe you were just curious about a given claim and wanted to know more, but didn't want to go out of your way to do research? 

Well, now with Roundabout, you can.

-- WHY ROUNDABOUT? --
- Identify claims in seconds, and get online results related to them
- Results are scored instantly by credibility, similarity, and recency
- Easily switch between multiple claims in one post
- Detect misinformation and broaden your own knowledge by exploring the results of these claims!

Improve your social media experience with Roundabout today!

-- TECHNICAL DETAILS --
The Roundabout extension identifies posts on social media that are claims using an in-house Exactitude metric (in-browser NLP using compromise). Exactitude measures the presence of 
a) quantifications
b) specific dates
c) specific locations
d) defined terms
e) specific sources
f) falsifiability
g) personal relativity (a penalty)

A score of 6/12 (with each non-penalty metric using a score of 0, 1, or 2) indicates a claim.
The extension uses the Brave search API for browsing (i.e. to get search results for detected claims); heavy use of this extension may result in the extension not getting results due to expired trial usage.
Credibility is calculated using results from AdFontes and MediaBiasFactCheck charts; these may not cover all sources.
Similarity is calculated using sentence transformation (all-MiniLM-l6-v2) and cosine similarity.
Recency is calculated by taking the date of the search result and the post date and splitting the difference.