--- title: New tool empowers users to fight online misinformation description: A new tool called the Trustnet browser extension empowers individuals to flag misinformation and identify others they trust to assess online content. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/new-tool-empowers-users-to-fight-online-misinformation-hgzpxb95j twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: New tool empowers users to fight online misinformation | daily.dev og:description: A new tool called the Trustnet browser extension empowers individuals to flag misinformation and identify others they trust to assess online content. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/new-tool-empowers-users-to-fight-online-misinformation-hgzpxb95j og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HgZpXB95j.png og:image:alt: New tool empowers users to fight online misinformation og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # New tool empowers users to fight online misinformation **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A new tool called the Trustnet browser extension empowers individuals to flag misinformation and identify others they trust to assess online content. The decentralized approach allows users to decide what constitutes misinformation and works for any content on any website. Through a two-week study, untrained individuals were able to effectively assess misinformation using the tool. The researchers faced challenges in enabling link-checking functionality and making design decisions that suit a variety of users. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@randy** · 0 upvotes > So now everyone gets to decide, for themselves, what "misinformation" is? 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