d-AI-logue Disinformation Assistant

Access to the d-AI-logue assistant is free and anonymous as it is installed within your browser as an extension/add-on.

Key Features of the d-AI-logue assistant:

AI-Powered Guidance: You engage with an interactive assistant (chatbot) that uses reflective questioning to help you evaluate news and online content.

Micro-Lessons: You may access optional micro-lessons to deepen your understanding of media and digital literacy.

Easy Interface: The extension opens in a customisable browser sidebar that sits alongside the content you're viewing, providing real-time analysis, easily.

Adaptable User Interface: You can tailor the d-AI-logue experience to suit your preferences through the extension's settings menu, choosing from various options.

Keep an archive: You may save offline any content analysis performed for future reference, as well as your dialogues with the assistant.

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Reading online and distinguishing trustworthy information from mis/disinformation is getting more and more challenging. d-AI-logue assistant is here to teach you how to analyse the accuracy of the information you read online by guiding you to think critically.

d-AI-logue assistant supports citizens, especially youth, who want to explore the reliability of information, by cultivating their critical thinking and by guiding them through a dialectical approach to reach their own conclusions. Instead of just consuming a fact-checking result, the use of d-AI-logue assistant cultivates an active, informed and critical stance.

How can this be achieved? This innovative virtual assistant guides you through reflective questioning to detect mis/disinformation signals in news items, empowering you to make informed decisions about their accuracy. For additional knowledge, you may dive deeper with optional micro-lessons and join our vibrant discussion forum for extra support in navigating the digital information landscape.

The d-AI-logue assistant extension offers a user interface contained in a browser “sidebar”, an area appearing next to a Web page. The user is able to customise this user interface according to their preferences. Available settings include the ability to select a light/dark theme (defaults to “auto”, trying to decide on a light/dark theme based on browser settings), the ability to show/hide the “header” (the top toolbar) and whether it can be “fixed” or “static”, the ability to control the navigation within the d-AI-logue extension, by selecting between a sidebar or a top-level menu, the ability to show the user menu, and the ability to set the text direction (left-to-right/right-to-left). Settings are stored in the browser’s cache and are remembered until the d-AI-logue extension is uninstalled.