YouTube Misinformation Detector

Real-time misinformation warnings, claim tracking, and interactive timeline drawer for YouTube videos.

Stay informed while watching YouTube. YouTube Misinformation Detector analyzes spoken video transcripts in real-time, displaying non-intrusive warning overlays and a comprehensive timeline drawer whenever questionable or debunked factual claims are made. Powered by Google Gemini AI, the detector flags misleading statements and provides authoritative reference sources so you can evaluate the facts for yourself without leaving the video. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⭐ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Real-Time In-Video Warnings As you watch a video, non-intrusive alert cards appear when misleading statements are spoken, giving you immediate context with zero interruption to your playback. 📊 Interactive Timeline Drawer Open the collapsible side panel beside the YouTube player to browse every analyzed statement chronologically. Filter by verified facts, questionable context, or debunked claims. 🎯 Color-Coded Suspicion Indicators • 🔴 Red Warning (Score 4–5): Flagged as false, misleading, or contradicted by scientific consensus. • 🟡 Yellow Warning (Score 2–3): Loaded, questionable, or lacking essential context. • 🟢 Green Badge: Verified factual claim backed by documented evidence. 🔗 Transparent Citations & Sources Every warning card includes direct links to reputable fact-checking bodies, scientific journals, government databases (NASA, IPCC, NOAA), and encyclopedic sources. ⏭️ Click-to-Seek Navigation Click any claim in the timeline drawer to instantly jump the video player to the exact timestamp where the statement was made. 🎨 Native Dark & Light Theme Seamlessly integrates with YouTube's dark and light modes with smooth animations and zero screen clutter. 🔒 Privacy First • No account or sign-in required. • No browsing history or personal data is collected, tracked, or sold. • Works strictly on YouTube watch pages. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 HOW TO USE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Install the extension. 2. Navigate to any YouTube video (e.g. news, documentaries, commentary). 3. The detector automatically activates and mounts a subtle status pill in the bottom-left corner. 4. Watch normally—warning cards will appear during flagged statements, or click the badge/drawer to inspect the entire timeline!