Factchecking your emails: OMG YES

[Alaris]

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...rwards/265207/

LazyTruth is a plug-in for Chrome that automatically scans email for information that FactCheck.org and Politifact have deemed false. If something doesn't check out, it'll provide a few words of correction and a link to where you can find out more. You can then easily pass that verified information on to the email's sender.

[sorudo]

or just check the news, i don't need a tool to know some facts.....

[Alaris]

Unfortunately, the news are biased and/or of poor quality. Factchecking offers some of the best journalism around.

I'd sign up for it, but I already signed up for Facebook factchecking articles.

[sorudo]

maybe where you live (no offense) but around here news isn't news unless checked, luckily we don't have things like fox news.

[Zalis]

Also: OMG, please read my e-mails?

[Alaris]

Canada is not that bad either (although we'd had some problems too). I think this is more useful for the USA and potentially a good thing if it propagates to other countries that also could use some of this.

@Zalis: are you afraid of them stealing your info? A filter does not need to send your emails anywhere, just the results of its computations (which is basically a % hit for each statement).