Overview

This project detects propaganda and persuasion tactics observed in the web page that you visit

It consists of two parts :

• Front-end : a chrome extension
• Back-end : Flask based API

The flask based API takes in the url of the webpage and extracts the contents , performing a keyword - based analysis with the help of Gemini Flash 2.0 model

The flask API returns a response that is rendered appropriately in the chrome extension

Installation

Extension

Prerequisites : Chrome browser

1. Clone the repository
2. Go to chrome://extensions
3. Toggle developer mode
4. Choose Load unpacked option and select the extension/ directory inside this repository

Back-end API

1. Clone the repository
2. run pip install -r requirements.txt
3. run python main.py
4. The API can be accessed at http://localhost:5000

Demo :

demo.mp4