News Rerouter

2019

News Rerouter is a chrome extension that can be installed on any chrome web browser. It is powered by an AI algorithm that is trained based on the top five most popular international news websites according to Pew Research Center, ranked by level of use. Once installed and turned on, it will reformat the current website on view, with the attempt to decentralize the original cultural perspective.

screenshots taken from the affected https://foxnews.com/

Extension alters:

• Background Color:

All the articles on the website will be assigned a different background color, mapped to how the AI algorithm classifies each article, as opposed to anthropocentric ways of classification, ie., conservative vs. liberal.

• Text Blocking:

Words associated with frequently appeared patterns are blocked by black color stripes.

• Image Swap:

Image covering top news stories are swapped with user contributed gifs crowd sourced from the internet.

• Hyperlink Swap:

Hyperlinks to popular stories are swapped with less popular stories on the site.