People are protecting their identities when consuming information.
Truth Goggles is a browser tool to help users think more carefully when reading information.
There is no code yet! But it will likely be a Node backend connected to a browser plugin.
The original Truth Goggles was a prototype developed at the MIT Media Lab's Center for Civic Media in 2012. It resulted in a thesis and a proof of concept demonstration. The demo was a piece of javascript that would identify phrases that perfectly matched known fact checks.
Once a fact check was found in the content of an article, Truth Goggles would kick in and try to combat known biases and backfire effects using interface tricks. In theory it helped people walk away with more nuanced perspectives about information than they would have had without the goggles.
This project is going to pick up on the spirit of that project, aided by five years worth of improvements to natural language processing.