Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet




B.S. Detector is described as 'Browser extension that warns users about unreliable news sources. It basically searches all links on a given webpage for references to unreliable sources, checking against a manually compiled list of domains' and is an app in the web browsers category. There are three alternatives to B.S. Detector for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Google Chrome and Android apps. The best B.S. Detector alternative is Fake Out, which is free. Other great apps like B.S. Detector are StB and FiB.




StB (stop-the-bullshit) is a Chrome browser extension that blocks websites that publish fake news, and hides their posts on Facebook.

The FiB Chrome extension analyzes your Facebook feed for a url, picture, and text's validity. It was built by four students as part of Princeton University's hackathon, with the challenge to solve Facebook's problem with fake news.
