Rhetoric Audit

Forensic Media Evaluation — ambient article scoring on every news page you read.

As of June 2026, Rhetoric Audit has 11 users and a 5.00/5 rating from 1 reviews in the Communication category.

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Changelog

  • May 22, 2026
    description
    **Rhetoric Audit — PhD-Level Forensic Media Analysis in Your Browser**
    
    Detect bias, propaganda, logical fallacies & strategic omissions — 15 diagnostic metrics in 2–5 seconds.
    
    Rhetoric Audit is a production-verified forensic media analyzer that reads what an article says AND how it's engineered to manipulate you. Click the floating pill on any news article and receive a full forensic report instantly.
    
    **WHAT YOU GET:**
    
    🎯 **Bias Spectrum Mapping** — Precision placement from Far Left to Far Right (not binary labels). Every score backed by reasoning.
    
    💣 **Propaganda Index** — Quantifies emotional loading, manipulation tactics & ideological engineering (0–100%).
    
    🚨 **24 Logical Fallacies** — Detects Ad Hominem, Strawman, False Dichotomy, Loaded Language, and 20 more — with exact quoted evidence.
    
    🔇 **Strategic Silence** — Reveals what's deliberately omitted: missing counter-evidence, absent perspectives, ignored context.
    
    😨 **Emotional Resonance Triad** — Separate Fear / Hope / Urgency scores to see what emotion the article targets.
    
    📊 **Evidence Validity Index** — Verifiable data vs. anecdotal claims.
    
    🧠 **Intellectual Depth (DOK)** — Webb's Depth of Knowledge framework (DOK-1 through DOK-4).
    
    👁️ **Intent Transparency** — Is the author informing or obfuscating? (0–100).
    
    ✍️ **Source Reliability** — Author credibility based on citation patterns and epistemological humility.
    
    🎭 **Narrative Archetype** — Hero Focus, Scapegoat Focus, or Victim Focus?
    
    🏛️ **Philosophical Frame** — The underlying ideological lens of the piece.
    
    **ACCURACY:**
    - ✅ **100% band-accuracy** on 14-article production test suite (all 5 content strata)
    - ✅ **Zero hallucinations** — all evidence quoted directly from article text
    - ✅ **$0.003/article cost** — efficient ensemble model with fallback chain
    - ✅ **Production-verified May 2, 2026** — 3 calibration patches deployed live
    
    **HOW IT WORKS:**
    
    1. **Install** the extension (free, no API key)
    2. **Sign up** with email or Google (10 free analysis credits, no card required)
    3. **Browse any news article** — a floating pill appears in the bottom-right corner
    4. **Click the pill** → forensic panel opens in sidebar
    5. **Export to PDF** for sharing or research
    
    **FEATURES:**
    
    ✨ **Ambient Scanning** — Pill auto-appears on news articles (no manual trigger needed)  
    📄 **PDF Export** — Save full forensic reports with charts, claims ledger, and forensic synthesis  
    📊 **Dashboard Sync** — All analyses sync to your Rhetoric Audit dashboard  
    🔒 **Private** — Your analyses stay in your account; zero data sharing  
    ⚡ **Fast** — 2–5 second analysis, even on long-form articles  
    
    **WHO IT'S FOR:**
    
    🎓 **Researchers & Academics** — Pre-coded rhetorical analysis; save hours in literature reviews and media criticism  
    📰 **Journalists & Fact-Checkers** — Verify narrative framing, not just factual claims  
    📋 **Policy Analysts** — Track media framing on policy topics in real time  
    👁️ **Critical Readers** — Read ANY article with forensic clarity, not blind trust  
    🛡️ **Skeptics & Media Literacy Educators** — Teach students to detect bias & manipulation  
    
    **TECHNICAL:**
    
    ✅ Manifest V3 compliant  
    ✅ No inline scripts or eval()  
    ✅ Content Security Policy enforced  
    ✅ CORS-validated API  
    ✅ Rate-limited (anonymous: 10/day, free tier: 30/day)  
    ✅ Supabase Row-Level Security — you only access your own analyses  
    
    **WHAT'S NEW IN v3.4.0:**
    
    - Production API endpoint verified (www.rhetoricaudit.com)
    - V19.1 forensic engine deployed (100% accuracy, 5 strata, MAE 2.5)
    - Ambient floating pill on all news pages
    - PDF export with full charts & claims ledger
    - Dashboard sync for scan history
    - Google OAuth + email sign-up
    - Anon quota: 10 free analyses; sign up to unlock 30/day free tier
    
    **PRIVACY & SECURITY:**
    
    📋 [Privacy Policy](https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/privacy)  
    ⚖️ [Terms of Service](https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/terms)  
    🌐 [OpenAPI Spec](https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/openapi.json)  
    
    ---
    Update: We have updated our privacy policy at https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/privacy to address all identified gaps:
    
    Added explicit disclosure of the anonymous device identifier (ra_device_id) generated on install
    Added a complete inventory of all chrome.storage.local keys and the data they contain
    Clarified exactly which data fields are transmitted to each third-party (Supabase, Crazyrouter AI, Vercel) with per-party breakdowns
    Updated the data transmission section to explicitly list article text, URL, page title, device ID, and user ID sent to our API
    
    **Questions?** Visit [https://www.rhetoricaudit.com](https://www.rhetoricaudit.com) or email [email protected]
    **Rhetoric Audit — PhD-Level Forensic Media Analysis in Your Browser**
    
    Detect bias, propaganda, logical fallacies & strategic omissions — 15 diagnostic metrics in 2–5 seconds.
    
    Rhetoric Audit is a production-verified forensic media analyzer that reads what an article says AND how it's engineered to manipulate you. Click the floating pill on any news article and receive a full forensic report instantly.
    
    **What's new in v3.5.2**
    
    Security & permissions release.
    
    — Removed unused `scripting` permission (declared but never called — flagged in Chrome Web Store review)
    — XSS hardening: all LLM-generated strings in the analysis panel are now HTML-escaped before rendering
    — Permissions reduced to minimum necessary: `activeTab`, `storage`, `contextMenus` only
    
    **What's new in v3.5.0**
    
    This release upgrades the forensic engine to FME V20 — a unified single-call pipeline replacing the previous multi-stage system. Analysis is now faster, more consistent, and covers every article regardless of site structure.
    
    New engine:
    — FME V20 powered by GPT-4.1 Nano
    — Universal article extraction via Mozilla Readability.js (now correctly analyses Reuters, EcoWatch, Hindustan Times, and other sites that use non-standard paragraph markup)
    — Confidence score visible in the panel header at all times
    
    Improved detection:
    — Smarter content filter: category/hub pages (e.g. bbc.com/news/world) are no longer incorrectly scanned
    — Subscription and account pages (e.g. pricing, userplan) blocked from triggering
    — Reduced false negatives on legitimate news articles
    
    Panel improvements:
    — Evidence Quality score (replaces Evidence Validity Index) with calibrated anchors
    — Factual Grounding removed (was not performing external verification — replaced by honest Evidence Quality signal)
    — Heatmap now visible for all V20 scans
    — Classification confidence shown as a header pill
    
    Permissions:
    This extension requests the minimum permissions necessary. v3.5.2 reduces permissions versus v3.5.0 — the `scripting` permission has been removed entirely. The only permissions requested are `activeTab`, `storage`, and `contextMenus`. The optional `clipboardWrite` permission is never used automatically — it only activates when you explicitly click the copy button.
    
    **WHAT YOU GET:**
    
    🎯 **Bias Spectrum Mapping** — Precision placement from Far Left to Far Right (not binary labels). Every score backed by reasoning.
    
    💣 **Propaganda Index** — Quantifies emotional loading, manipulation tactics & ideological engineering (0–100%).
    
    🚨 **24 Logical Fallacies** — Detects Ad Hominem, Strawman, False Dichotomy, Loaded Language, and 20 more — with exact quoted evidence.
    
    🔇 **Strategic Silence** — Reveals what's deliberately omitted: missing counter-evidence, absent perspectives, ignored context.
    
    😨 **Emotional Resonance Triad** — Separate Fear / Hope / Urgency scores to see what emotion the article targets.
    
    📊 **Evidence Quality Index** — Verifiable data vs. anecdotal claims.
    
    🧠 **Intellectual Depth (DOK)** — Webb's Depth of Knowledge framework (DOK-1 through DOK-4).
    
    👁️ **Intent Transparency** — Is the author informing or obfuscating? (0–100).
    
    ✍️ **Source Reliability** — Author credibility based on citation patterns and epistemological humility.
    
    🎭 **Narrative Archetype** — Hero Focus, Scapegoat Focus, or Victim Focus?
    
    🏛️ **Philosophical Frame** — The underlying ideological lens of the piece.
    
    **ACCURACY:**
    - ✅ **100% band-accuracy** on 14-article production test suite (all 5 content strata)
    - ✅ **Zero hallucinations** — all evidence quoted directly from article text
    - ✅ **$0.003/article cost** — efficient ensemble model with fallback chain
    - ✅ **Production-verified May 2, 2026** — 3 calibration patches deployed live
    
    **HOW IT WORKS:**
    
    1. **Install** the extension (free, no API key)
    2. **Sign up** with email or Google (10 free analysis credits, no card required)
    3. **Browse any news article** — a floating pill appears in the bottom-right corner
    4. **Click the pill** → forensic panel opens in sidebar
    5. **Export to PDF** for sharing or research
    
    **FEATURES:**
    
    ✨ **Ambient Scanning** — Pill auto-appears on news articles (no manual trigger needed)
    📄 **PDF Export** — Save full forensic reports with charts, claims ledger, and forensic synthesis
    📊 **Dashboard Sync** — All analyses sync to your Rhetoric Audit dashboard
    🔒 **Private** — Your analyses stay in your account; zero data sharing
    ⚡ **Fast** — 2–5 second analysis, even on long-form articles
    
    **WHO IT'S FOR:**
    
    🎓 **Researchers & Academics** — Pre-coded rhetorical analysis; save hours in literature reviews and media criticism
    📰 **Journalists & Fact-Checkers** — Verify narrative framing, not just factual claims
    📋 **Policy Analysts** — Track media framing on policy topics in real time
    👁️ **Critical Readers** — Read ANY article with forensic clarity, not blind trust
    🛡️ **Skeptics & Media Literacy Educators** — Teach students to detect bias & manipulation
    
    **TECHNICAL:**
    
    ✅ Manifest V3 compliant
    ✅ Minimum permissions — `scripting` removed in v3.5.2; only `activeTab`, `storage`, `contextMenus` requested
    ✅ No inline scripts or eval()
    ✅ Content Security Policy enforced
    ✅ XSS-hardened panel — all dynamic content HTML-escaped before rendering
    ✅ CORS-validated API
    ✅ Rate-limited (anonymous: 10/day, free tier: 30/day)
    ✅ Supabase Row-Level Security — you only access your own analyses
    
    **WHAT'S NEW IN v3.4.0:**
    
    - Production API endpoint verified (www.rhetoricaudit.com)
    - V19.1 forensic engine deployed (100% accuracy, 5 strata, MAE 2.5)
    - Ambient floating pill on all news pages
    - PDF export with full charts & claims ledger
    - Dashboard sync for scan history
    - Google OAuth + email sign-up
    - Anon quota: 10 free analyses; sign up to unlock 30/day free tier
    
    **PRIVACY & SECURITY:**
    
    📋 [Privacy Policy](https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/privacy)
    ⚖️ [Terms of Service](https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/terms)
    🌐 [OpenAPI Spec](https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/openapi.json)
    
    ---
    Update: We have updated our privacy policy at https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/privacy to address all identified gaps:
    
    Added explicit disclosure of the anonymous device identifier (ra_device_id) generated on install
    Added a complete inventory of all chrome.storage.local keys and the data they contain
    Clarified exactly which data fields are transmitted to each third-party (Supabase, Vercel) with per-party breakdowns
    Updated the data transmission section to explicitly list article text, URL, page title, device ID, and user ID sent to our API
    
    **Questions?** Visit https://www.rhetoricaudit.com or email [email protected]
  • May 22, 2026
    permissions
    activeTab, storage, contextMenus, clipboardWrite
    activeTab, storage, contextMenus
  • May 10, 2026
    description
    PhD-level forensic media analyzer. Detect bias, propaganda, logical fallacies & strategic omissions — 13 metrics in seconds.
    
    FULL DESCRIPTION:
    Rhetoric Audit is a forensic media evaluation tool that analyzes any article you're reading — in real time — across 13 diagnostic metrics. It doesn't just tell you what an article says. It tells you how it's engineered to make you think.
    
    WHAT RHETORIC AUDIT ANALYZES:
    
    • Bias Spectrum Mapping — Places content on a precision gradient from Far Left to Far Right (not just binary labels)
    • Propaganda Index — Quantifies emotional loading, manipulation risk, and ideological engineering (0–100%)
    • Logical Fallacy Detection — Identifies 24 fallacy types (Ad Hominem, Strawman, False Dichotomy, and more) with exact quoted text
    • Strategic Silence — Reveals what the article deliberately doesn't say: missing counter-evidence, omitted perspectives
    • Emotional Resonance Triad — Separate Fear / Hope / Urgency scores (0–100 each)
    • Intent Transparency — Is the author informing or obfuscating? (0 = Obfuscating → 100 = Informing)
    • Evidence Validity Index — Verifiable data vs. anecdotal or assumed claims
    • Narrative Archetype — Hero Focus, Scapegoat Focus, or Victim Focus
    • Intellectual Depth (DOK) — Webb's Depth of Knowledge framework (DOK-1 through DOK-4)
    • Source Reliability — Author credibility scoring based on citation and epistemological humility
    • Philosophical Frame — The underlying ideological lens of the piece
    • Volatility Correlation — Societal impact sensitivity (LOW / MOD / HIGH)
    • PhD Analytical Deduction — A 3–4 sentence forensic synthesis of the complete rhetorical strategy
    
    WHO IT'S FOR:
    — Researchers & academics: Pre-coded rhetorical analysis, save hours in literature reviews
    — Journalists & fact-checkers: Verify narratives, not just facts
    — Policy analysts: Track media framing on policy topics
    — Critical readers: Read any article with forensic clarity
    
    HOW IT WORKS:
    1. Install the extension (free, no API key required)
    2. Sign up to receive 10 free analysis credits
    3. Browse to any article and click the Rhetoric Audit icon
    4. Receive a full forensic report in 2–5 seconds
    
    TECHNICAL:
    — Manifest V3 compliant
    — No inline scripts or eval()
    — Content Security Policy enabled
    — CORS-validated backend
    — Rate-limited API
    — Supabase Row-Level Security — you can only access your own analyses
    
    
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    WHAT'S NEW IN v2.2.0
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    
    New permission: identity — used for Google  
      OAuth sign-in via chrome.identity.launchWebAuthFlow. No additional user data  
      is accessed.
    **Rhetoric Audit — PhD-Level Forensic Media Analysis in Your Browser**
    
    Detect bias, propaganda, logical fallacies & strategic omissions — 15 diagnostic metrics in 2–5 seconds.
    
    Rhetoric Audit is a production-verified forensic media analyzer that reads what an article says AND how it's engineered to manipulate you. Click the floating pill on any news article and receive a full forensic report instantly.
    
    **WHAT YOU GET:**
    
    🎯 **Bias Spectrum Mapping** — Precision placement from Far Left to Far Right (not binary labels). Every score backed by reasoning.
    
    💣 **Propaganda Index** — Quantifies emotional loading, manipulation tactics & ideological engineering (0–100%).
    
    🚨 **24 Logical Fallacies** — Detects Ad Hominem, Strawman, False Dichotomy, Loaded Language, and 20 more — with exact quoted evidence.
    
    🔇 **Strategic Silence** — Reveals what's deliberately omitted: missing counter-evidence, absent perspectives, ignored context.
    
    😨 **Emotional Resonance Triad** — Separate Fear / Hope / Urgency scores to see what emotion the article targets.
    
    📊 **Evidence Validity Index** — Verifiable data vs. anecdotal claims.
    
    🧠 **Intellectual Depth (DOK)** — Webb's Depth of Knowledge framework (DOK-1 through DOK-4).
    
    👁️ **Intent Transparency** — Is the author informing or obfuscating? (0–100).
    
    ✍️ **Source Reliability** — Author credibility based on citation patterns and epistemological humility.
    
    🎭 **Narrative Archetype** — Hero Focus, Scapegoat Focus, or Victim Focus?
    
    🏛️ **Philosophical Frame** — The underlying ideological lens of the piece.
    
    **ACCURACY:**
    - ✅ **100% band-accuracy** on 14-article production test suite (all 5 content strata)
    - ✅ **Zero hallucinations** — all evidence quoted directly from article text
    - ✅ **$0.003/article cost** — efficient ensemble model with fallback chain
    - ✅ **Production-verified May 2, 2026** — 3 calibration patches deployed live
    
    **HOW IT WORKS:**
    
    1. **Install** the extension (free, no API key)
    2. **Sign up** with email or Google (10 free analysis credits, no card required)
    3. **Browse any news article** — a floating pill appears in the bottom-right corner
    4. **Click the pill** → forensic panel opens in sidebar
    5. **Export to PDF** for sharing or research
    
    **FEATURES:**
    
    ✨ **Ambient Scanning** — Pill auto-appears on news articles (no manual trigger needed)  
    📄 **PDF Export** — Save full forensic reports with charts, claims ledger, and forensic synthesis  
    📊 **Dashboard Sync** — All analyses sync to your Rhetoric Audit dashboard  
    🔒 **Private** — Your analyses stay in your account; zero data sharing  
    ⚡ **Fast** — 2–5 second analysis, even on long-form articles  
    
    **WHO IT'S FOR:**
    
    🎓 **Researchers & Academics** — Pre-coded rhetorical analysis; save hours in literature reviews and media criticism  
    📰 **Journalists & Fact-Checkers** — Verify narrative framing, not just factual claims  
    📋 **Policy Analysts** — Track media framing on policy topics in real time  
    👁️ **Critical Readers** — Read ANY article with forensic clarity, not blind trust  
    🛡️ **Skeptics & Media Literacy Educators** — Teach students to detect bias & manipulation  
    
    **TECHNICAL:**
    
    ✅ Manifest V3 compliant  
    ✅ No inline scripts or eval()  
    ✅ Content Security Policy enforced  
    ✅ CORS-validated API  
    ✅ Rate-limited (anonymous: 10/day, free tier: 30/day)  
    ✅ Supabase Row-Level Security — you only access your own analyses  
    
    **WHAT'S NEW IN v3.4.0:**
    
    - Production API endpoint verified (www.rhetoricaudit.com)
    - V19.1 forensic engine deployed (100% accuracy, 5 strata, MAE 2.5)
    - Ambient floating pill on all news pages
    - PDF export with full charts & claims ledger
    - Dashboard sync for scan history
    - Google OAuth + email sign-up
    - Anon quota: 10 free analyses; sign up to unlock 30/day free tier
    
    **PRIVACY & SECURITY:**
    
    📋 [Privacy Policy](https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/privacy)  
    ⚖️ [Terms of Service](https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/terms)  
    🌐 [OpenAPI Spec](https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/openapi.json)  
    
    ---
    Update: We have updated our privacy policy at https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/privacy to address all identified gaps:
    
    Added explicit disclosure of the anonymous device identifier (ra_device_id) generated on install
    Added a complete inventory of all chrome.storage.local keys and the data they contain
    Clarified exactly which data fields are transmitted to each third-party (Supabase, Crazyrouter AI, Vercel) with per-party breakdowns
    Updated the data transmission section to explicitly list article text, URL, page title, device ID, and user ID sent to our API
    
    **Questions?** Visit [https://www.rhetoricaudit.com](https://www.rhetoricaudit.com) or email [email protected]
  • May 10, 2026
    short_description
    Forensic media analyzer. Detect bias, propaganda, 24 fallacies, strategic omissions in any article — 2-5 seconds.
    Forensic Media Evaluation — ambient article scoring on every news page you read.
  • May 10, 2026
    permissions
    activeTab, scripting, storage, contextMenus, identity
    activeTab, storage, contextMenus, clipboardWrite
  • Apr 17, 2026
    description
    Rhetorical Audit Pro is a high-level media literacy tool that brings the analytical rigor of a Humanities PhD to your browser. By leveraging the Puter AI engine, this extension deconstructs news articles and reports in real-time to expose the underlying architecture of persuasion.
    
    What it does:
    
    Identifies Philosophical Frameworks: Instantly classifies the ideological lens of any article, from Left-Internationalism to Conservative Realism.
    
    Maps Rhetorical DNA: Quantifies key metrics such as Empirical Proof, Logical Consistency, Polemical Intensity, and Pathos (emotional manipulation).
    
    Visualizes Bias: Features a custom Bias Spectrum that places content on a gradient from Far Left to Far Right, alongside a dedicated Propaganda Index to flag manipulative framing.
    
    Exposes Strategic Silences: Points out tactical omissions—the perspectives and facts strategically left out of the narrative.
    
    Why install it?
    In an age of polarized media and algorithmic echo chambers, understanding how you are being persuaded is as important as what you are reading. Rhetorical Audit Pro is an essential companion for researchers, students, and critical thinkers who need to navigate complex information landscapes. It turns passive reading into an active audit, helping you see through the "spin" and recognize the hidden narratives that shape public discourse.
    PhD-level forensic media analyzer. Detect bias, propaganda, logical fallacies & strategic omissions — 13 metrics in seconds.
    
    FULL DESCRIPTION:
    Rhetoric Audit is a forensic media evaluation tool that analyzes any article you're reading — in real time — across 13 diagnostic metrics. It doesn't just tell you what an article says. It tells you how it's engineered to make you think.
    
    WHAT RHETORIC AUDIT ANALYZES:
    
    • Bias Spectrum Mapping — Places content on a precision gradient from Far Left to Far Right (not just binary labels)
    • Propaganda Index — Quantifies emotional loading, manipulation risk, and ideological engineering (0–100%)
    • Logical Fallacy Detection — Identifies 24 fallacy types (Ad Hominem, Strawman, False Dichotomy, and more) with exact quoted text
    • Strategic Silence — Reveals what the article deliberately doesn't say: missing counter-evidence, omitted perspectives
    • Emotional Resonance Triad — Separate Fear / Hope / Urgency scores (0–100 each)
    • Intent Transparency — Is the author informing or obfuscating? (0 = Obfuscating → 100 = Informing)
    • Evidence Validity Index — Verifiable data vs. anecdotal or assumed claims
    • Narrative Archetype — Hero Focus, Scapegoat Focus, or Victim Focus
    • Intellectual Depth (DOK) — Webb's Depth of Knowledge framework (DOK-1 through DOK-4)
    • Source Reliability — Author credibility scoring based on citation and epistemological humility
    • Philosophical Frame — The underlying ideological lens of the piece
    • Volatility Correlation — Societal impact sensitivity (LOW / MOD / HIGH)
    • PhD Analytical Deduction — A 3–4 sentence forensic synthesis of the complete rhetorical strategy
    
    WHO IT'S FOR:
    — Researchers & academics: Pre-coded rhetorical analysis, save hours in literature reviews
    — Journalists & fact-checkers: Verify narratives, not just facts
    — Policy analysts: Track media framing on policy topics
    — Critical readers: Read any article with forensic clarity
    
    HOW IT WORKS:
    1. Install the extension (free, no API key required)
    2. Sign up to receive 10 free analysis credits
    3. Browse to any article and click the Rhetoric Audit icon
    4. Receive a full forensic report in 2–5 seconds
    
    TECHNICAL:
    — Manifest V3 compliant
    — No inline scripts or eval()
    — Content Security Policy enabled
    — CORS-validated backend
    — Rate-limited API
    — Supabase Row-Level Security — you can only access your own analyses
    
    
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    WHAT'S NEW IN v2.2.0
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    
    New permission: identity — used for Google  
      OAuth sign-in via chrome.identity.launchWebAuthFlow. No additional user data  
      is accessed.
  • Apr 17, 2026
    short_description
    PhD-level ideological and rhetorical deconstruction powered by Puter AI.
    Forensic media analyzer. Detect bias, propaganda, 24 fallacies, strategic omissions in any article — 2-5 seconds.
  • Apr 17, 2026
    name
    Ideology & Rhetoric Analyzer (Puter)
    Rhetoric Audit
  • Apr 17, 2026
    host_permissions
    (empty)
    <all_urls>
  • Apr 17, 2026
    permissions
    activeTab, scripting, storage
    activeTab, scripting, storage, contextMenus, identity

Permissions & access

Permissions
activeTabstoragecontextMenus
Host access
<all_urls>

Screenshots

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About

**Rhetoric Audit — PhD-Level Forensic Media Analysis in Your Browser**

Detect bias, propaganda, logical fallacies & strategic omissions — 15 diagnostic metrics in 2–5 seconds.

Rhetoric Audit is a production-verified forensic media analyzer that reads what an article says AND how it's engineered to manipulate you. Click the floating pill on any news article and receive a full forensic report instantly.

**What's new in v3.5.2**

Security & permissions release.

— Removed unused `scripting` permission (declared but never called — flagged in Chrome Web Store review)
— XSS hardening: all LLM-generated strings in the analysis panel are now HTML-escaped before rendering
— Permissions reduced to minimum necessary: `activeTab`, `storage`, `contextMenus` only

**What's new in v3.5.0**

This release upgrades the forensic engine to FME V20 — a unified single-call pipeline replacing the previous multi-stage system. Analysis is now faster, more consistent, and covers every article regardless of site structure.

New engine:
— FME V20 powered by GPT-4.1 Nano
— Universal article extraction via Mozilla Readability.js (now correctly analyses Reuters, EcoWatch, Hindustan Times, and other sites that use non-standard paragraph markup)
— Confidence score visible in the panel header at all times

Improved detection:
— Smarter content filter: category/hub pages (e.g. bbc.com/news/world) are no longer incorrectly scanned
— Subscription and account pages (e.g. pricing, userplan) blocked from triggering
— Reduced false negatives on legitimate news articles

Panel improvements:
— Evidence Quality score (replaces Evidence Validity Index) with calibrated anchors
— Factual Grounding removed (was not performing external verification — replaced by honest Evidence Quality signal)
— Heatmap now visible for all V20 scans
— Classification confidence shown as a header pill

Permissions:
This extension requests the minimum permissions necessary. v3.5.2 reduces permissions versus v3.5.0 — the `scripting` permission has been removed entirely. The only permissions requested are `activeTab`, `storage`, and `contextMenus`. The optional `clipboardWrite` permission is never used automatically — it only activates when you explicitly click the copy button.

**WHAT YOU GET:**

🎯 **Bias Spectrum Mapping** — Precision placement from Far Left to Far Right (not binary labels). Every score backed by reasoning.

💣 **Propaganda Index** — Quantifies emotional loading, manipulation tactics & ideological engineering (0–100%).

🚨 **24 Logical Fallacies** — Detects Ad Hominem, Strawman, False Dichotomy, Loaded Language, and 20 more — with exact quoted evidence.

🔇 **Strategic Silence** — Reveals what's deliberately omitted: missing counter-evidence, absent perspectives, ignored context.

😨 **Emotional Resonance Triad** — Separate Fear / Hope / Urgency scores to see what emotion the article targets.

📊 **Evidence Quality Index** — Verifiable data vs. anecdotal claims.

🧠 **Intellectual Depth (DOK)** — Webb's Depth of Knowledge framework (DOK-1 through DOK-4).

👁️ **Intent Transparency** — Is the author informing or obfuscating? (0–100).

✍️ **Source Reliability** — Author credibility based on citation patterns and epistemological humility.

🎭 **Narrative Archetype** — Hero Focus, Scapegoat Focus, or Victim Focus?

🏛️ **Philosophical Frame** — The underlying ideological lens of the piece.

**ACCURACY:**
- ✅ **100% band-accuracy** on 14-article production test suite (all 5 content strata)
- ✅ **Zero hallucinations** — all evidence quoted directly from article text
- ✅ **$0.003/article cost** — efficient ensemble model with fallback chain
- ✅ **Production-verified May 2, 2026** — 3 calibration patches deployed live

**HOW IT WORKS:**

1. **Install** the extension (free, no API key)
2. **Sign up** with email or Google (10 free analysis credits, no card required)
3. **Browse any news article** — a floating pill appears in the bottom-right corner
4. **Click the pill** → forensic panel opens in sidebar
5. **Export to PDF** for sharing or research

**FEATURES:**

✨ **Ambient Scanning** — Pill auto-appears on news articles (no manual trigger needed)
📄 **PDF Export** — Save full forensic reports with charts, claims ledger, and forensic synthesis
📊 **Dashboard Sync** — All analyses sync to your Rhetoric Audit dashboard
🔒 **Private** — Your analyses stay in your account; zero data sharing
⚡ **Fast** — 2–5 second analysis, even on long-form articles

**WHO IT'S FOR:**

🎓 **Researchers & Academics** — Pre-coded rhetorical analysis; save hours in literature reviews and media criticism
📰 **Journalists & Fact-Checkers** — Verify narrative framing, not just factual claims
📋 **Policy Analysts** — Track media framing on policy topics in real time
👁️ **Critical Readers** — Read ANY article with forensic clarity, not blind trust
🛡️ **Skeptics & Media Literacy Educators** — Teach students to detect bias & manipulation

**TECHNICAL:**

✅ Manifest V3 compliant
✅ Minimum permissions — `scripting` removed in v3.5.2; only `activeTab`, `storage`, `contextMenus` requested
✅ No inline scripts or eval()
✅ Content Security Policy enforced
✅ XSS-hardened panel — all dynamic content HTML-escaped before rendering
✅ CORS-validated API
✅ Rate-limited (anonymous: 10/day, free tier: 30/day)
✅ Supabase Row-Level Security — you only access your own analyses

**WHAT'S NEW IN v3.4.0:**

- Production API endpoint verified (www.rhetoricaudit.com)
- V19.1 forensic engine deployed (100% accuracy, 5 strata, MAE 2.5)
- Ambient floating pill on all news pages
- PDF export with full charts & claims ledger
- Dashboard sync for scan history
- Google OAuth + email sign-up
- Anon quota: 10 free analyses; sign up to unlock 30/day free tier

**PRIVACY & SECURITY:**

📋 [Privacy Policy](https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/privacy)
⚖️ [Terms of Service](https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/terms)
🌐 [OpenAPI Spec](https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/openapi.json)

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Update: We have updated our privacy policy at https://www.rhetoricaudit.com/privacy to address all identified gaps:

Added explicit disclosure of the anonymous device identifier (ra_device_id) generated on install
Added a complete inventory of all chrome.storage.local keys and the data they contain
Clarified exactly which data fields are transmitted to each third-party (Supabase, Vercel) with per-party breakdowns
Updated the data transmission section to explicitly list article text, URL, page title, device ID, and user ID sent to our API

**Questions?** Visit https://www.rhetoricaudit.com or email [email protected]

Technical

Version
3.5.2
Manifest
V3
Size
87.67KiB
Min Chrome
88
Languages
1
Featured
No

Metadata

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Developer ID
u614c9886288c6cdef8a5925c6374166b
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Mar 30, 2026
Last Updated (Store)
May 19, 2026
Last Scraped
Jun 10, 2026
Website
rhetoricaudit.com

Data sourced from the Chrome Web Store · last verified Jun 10, 2026.