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PolitEcho

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Shannon KnightNov 22, 2022

LEANED LEFT!!! THEN STOPPED WORKING- GEEZE EVERYTHING IS LIBERAL ON CHROME EXTENSIONS!

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Stacia HargerSep 1, 2021

Loved it when it worked. Has stopped working recently and no answer from developer.

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Little DogNov 10, 2020

It's a neat extension at most. Don't take it seriously or you're gonna shove yourself into a bubble very quickly.

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That GuyOct 30, 2019

You know its loaded because they rate the average news agency as being in the middle.

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Camron Watlington (Cam)Apr 14, 2017

It doesn't work. My news feed language is set to English, and I am surfing on Chrome, yet I am still being told my data cannot be accessed. The application is a good idea, but it obviously needs more work.

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Liza BenderApr 13, 2017

Very cool idea, good job doing what you've done. Improvements and suggestions: 1. where am i in the data set, compared to my friends? 2. not sure what the "confidence" level is meant to represent... it's not explained anywhere that I could find. 3. the data pages should have some explainers of the data/graphs being shown... what you have is not enough. 4. seems some of the FB pages are not categorized properly... and if you think they are then an explainer of how pages are judged would ... Show more

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James Drayton-LosotovApr 11, 2017

Really cool idea, but unfortunately very underdeveloped so far. The biggest problem is that it only takes account of very well known news sources and political figures, and almost only US ones. If most of your friends aren't from the US, there's little point using this app. It's also very crude in the way it categorizes things on the left/right spectrum. Apparently The Onion is as far-left as possible and Bernie Sanders is no more left-wing than Obama. Inexplicably, alternative medicine/fa... Show more

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Lorrie SchuApr 10, 2017

John Stossel brought this app to my attention. I've always tried to keep my friends balanced. I want to hear both sides...usually the truth is somewhere in the middle lol. I'm almost completely even with my friends, so awesome!

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Gail Cammero ReillyMar 8, 2017

While confident there is a margin for error, I found this to be more accurate than not - I like the way it can keep a user up to speed on their own bias. Thanks! Great extension.

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XanderDec 21, 2016

i like the idea but id like to assign values myself. most on my friends are far more left than liberal and theres no reflection of that here also some pages are miss labeled

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