Opinionated

Tells you whether a news article is particularly polarized. In a world of confused media, this app makes it easier to angle your consumption towards a more neutral perspective.

Changes the article title’s color according to the how polarized the article is, based on a ratio (refer to the legend in the extension’s page) and gives you a count of the number of polarizing words on the page.

News sites currently supported:
– CNN
– Breitbart
– BBC
– MSNBC
– New York Times
– Wall Street Journal
– Fox News
– Huffington Post
– Washington Post
– LA Times
– Reuters
– ABC News
– USA Today
– Bloomberg
– NBC News
– Daily Mail
– The Guardian
– India Times
– News.com
– Politico
– New York Post
– CBS News
– ABC News
– Denver Post

Dataset of polarizing matchers taken from the following papers:

Minqing Hu and Bing Liu. “Mining and Summarizing Customer Reviews.”
Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2004), Aug 22-25, 2004, Seattle,
Washington, USA,
Bing Liu, Minqing Hu and Junsheng Cheng. “Opinion Observer: Analyzing
and Comparing Opinions on the Web.” Proceedings of the 14th
International World Wide Web conference (WWW-2005), May 10-14,
2005, Chiba, Japan.