Verification Chrome Extensions
This document lists 18 Chrome extensions for verification, including tools for fact-checking news articles, identifying and blocking trackers, translating text, scraping data, performing reverse image searches, and accessing archived versions of web pages.
- Chrome extensions: Extensions for enhancing Chrome’s functionality.
- CrowdTangle Link Checker: Allows you to check the performance and engagement of links on social media.
- Extensions Manager: This enables you to easily manage and organize your Chrome extensions.
- FirstDraftNewsCheck: Provides tools for verifying and fact-checking news articles. This organization sunset in January 2023, so the extension likely will degrade over time.
- Ghostery – identify Google AdSense IDs: Enhances privacy by identifying and blocking trackers, including Google AdSense IDs.
- Google Translate: Translates text or web pages to different languages.
- Instant Data Scraper: Scrapes data from websites and exports it to CSV or Excel formats.
- InVID-Fake video news debunker: Helps identify and debunk fake news videos. The Twitter SNA tool attached to this will continue to work after the API changes of 2023.
- Keep for Chrome: Integrates Google Keep with Chrome for note-taking and organization.
- Map switcher: Switches between different map providers for web-based mapping services.
- RevEye Image Search: Performs reverse image searches to find similar images or their sources.
- Storyful Multisearch: Allows simultaneous searches across multiple social media platforms.
- Treeverse - Visualize Twitter Conversations: Visualizes Twitter conversations and threads for better understanding. This may not work after the Twitter API changes in 2023.
- Truly Media: Collaborative platform for verifying user-generated content.
- VideoVault: Allows you to save, organize, and watch videos in a secure vault within Chrome.
- Wayback Machine: Accesses archived versions of web pages using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
- Web Archives: Provides easy access to web archives to view historical website versions.