Find fake Facebook stories with an extension these students created in 36 hours

Facebook is struggling to keep up with the trend of making infiltration of fake news and news feeds. But it turns out that some of the students work with programmers found a way to sniff out fake news sites who had only 36 hours to the giant social media.

Nabanita D, spoke Friday Mashable, including four students, came down during a three-day hackathon event, the group last week at Princeton University. He came up with the Chrome browser extension called appropriate FIB.

D. The idea struck him as UMass Amherst, where he was a grad student on the bus to Princeton. 22, about his eternal companion hackathon Goel, 18, Qinglin Chen, 20, and Mark craft, to find a way to deal with the false information that spreads through Facebook chat with 19.
After a whirlwind 36 hours, the team came up with a solution to this fake news. Expansion goes through your feeds and news, photos and links to other sources confirmed. Posts are tagged with a "confidence score" users either to a post BS or not feeling "confirm" or "verify" or legit. How to post such extension links, is through a combination of letters and images API calls that work by making the use of advanced web scraping to find that is sent to AI is performed.

Said device being released, de 50,000 downloads have been there in numbers. "They're crashing servers can not handle such a meeting," he said. It is about being out in the open team.

D team has been in touch with Facebook, but they will be up for better integration with the platform.

Also this week, "BS Detector" and "fake news alert" and other Chrome extensions start as tools in efforts to fight fake Facebook stories. Maybe Facebook will then jump on some of them do not seem quite figured out how to handle the problem.