Primary Source Scraper
This extension looks for primary news sources in articles and highlights them so they are easy to see
Primary Source Scraper - Find Reliable News Sources
Primary Source Scraper is an Edge add-on that aims to make it clear whether a news article links to external sources for independent verification. It highlights these sources and eventually provides insights on their trustworthiness.
Add-on stats
Rating: 5.00 
(1)
Creation date: 2020-12-02
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- https://primarysourcescraper.azurewebsites.net/api/*
- activeTab
- storage
Size: 97.43K
URLs: Website ,Privacy policy
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Add-on summary
News lives on the internet now! Various news sources are taking advantage of that by linking to sources, but it's not always clear that they're linking to external sources. It's even less clear whether they're linking to trustworthy external sources.
This project has a few goals:
- Make it clear whether a news article links to any external sources that readers can use to independently verify that the news is being reported accurately.
- Highlight the links to those sources
- (Eventually) Point out the relative trustworthiness of those sources (e.g. a .gov url is likely more trustworthy of a source than a tweet)
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User reviews
I use this tool every day to help find the original sources that news articles are based on
by Eric, 2020-11-16
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Primary Source Scraper requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Primary Source Scraper has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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