[elihu]

How does it work? Is it just a blacklist?

> "Also includes a clustering analysis that could lead to an algorithm to automatically detect Fake News."

This implies that they want to do automatic fake news detection, but aren't quite there yet. Is that correct?

[makepanic]

Looks like it's currently using a hard coded list of urls that are considered to be bad.

For general requests: https://github.com/jacquerie/stop-the-bullshit/blob/master/s...

For facebook: https://github.com/jacquerie/stop-the-bullshit/blob/master/s...

[ultrasandwich]

Yeah, it's just some arbitrary list of a few hardcoded URLs right now... Is this really useful??

[jnotarstefano]

Consider that I built it this night for http://lauzhack.com/, so it's not intended to be a fully-featured solution to the problem.

The main issue I wanted to address is the fact that such a blocker must be widely installed to be useful. Therefore, the Facebook message is intended to prod current users of the extensions to ask that their friends install it as well.

[makomk]

I'm amused that long-running British newspaper the Daily Star has made the list. I mean, it's probably accurate as they do have a bit of a reputation, but still - surprising.