Template:Did you know nominations/SurfSafe
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:49, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
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SurfSafe
[edit]- ... that the SurfSafe browser extension is meant to combat fake news by spotting altered or misleadingly used images as they appear to a user? Source: "That's especially true, Varol says, when the image itself is real, but is presented online in an entirely different context. A photo from one protest, for instance, might turn up in a story about another, misleading the viewer about what really happened.SurfSafe isn't a perfect solution, but it's certainly an ambitious start. It stores a unique digital fingerprint for every photo on more than 100 news sites that SurfSafe considers trusted, including outlets like NYTimes.com, CNN.com, and FoxNews.com. It also saves a signature of every photo its users see while they're browsing the internet with the plug-in installed.When a user hovers over a photo, SurfSafe scans the entire database of fingerprints to see if it's ever encountered that image before in its raw or doctored form. If it has, it instantly surfaces the other images on the right side of the screen, prioritizing the earliest instance of the image, as it's most likely to be the original." Wired, "This Browser Extension Is Like an AntiVirus for Fake Photos"; August 20, 2018
- Reviewed: Marianne Schech
Created by Daniel Case (talk). Self-nominated at 07:59, 16 January 2019 (UTC).
