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I built a Chrome extension that analyzes per-article news bias in the browser — no account, no server, BYOK for the deeper analysis

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I built a Chrome extension that analyzes per-article news bias in the browser — no account, no server, BYOK for the deeper analysis I built a Chrome extension that analyzes per-article news bias in the browser — no account, no server, BYOK for the deeper analysis I'm the developer. Free, open-source (AGPL-3.0), no telemetry on what you read. **What it does.** Click the toolbar icon on any news article and a side panel opens with a readout of how the article is slanted: overall lean, loaded words, headline-vs-body drift, and the specific phrases the model flagged — which get underlined inline on the page so you can see the evidence in context. **Two layers.** * **In-browser, no key:** uses the [BABE lexicon](https://github.com/Media-Bias-Group/Neural-Media-Bias-Detection-Using-Distant-Supervision-With-BABE) (2,100+ peer-reviewed loaded terms), attribution-verb skew, headline-vs-body drift, hedge-word count. Zero network calls.…

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