Aletheia analyzes political bias across all mediums to help better inform users regarding the content that they consume. It is designed to get information from any website, providing insights that go beyond traditional news sites to cover contemporary sources of information like online forums and social media platforms.

As politics makes its way into our daily lives, it has grown increasingly difficult to identify bias and inaccuracies. While the leanings of newspapers and cable channels may be attainable through google searches, many have started to get their information from online creators who are harder to scrutinize, particularly given that humans are all inherently biased. Aletheia was created for Hack the 6ix to help get around this limitation, using artificial intelligence to analyze both types of content and deliver a verdict.

Technologies

NextJS
TailwindCSS
Google Gemini
- Analyzes the content, as well as context (source, tone, etc.) fed to it to determine political bias
TwelveLabs
- Processes video, transcribing spoken language and things of note (eg. clothing, source of news)
Cheerio
- Basic web scraping
Puppeteer
- Advanced (2nd layer) web scraping

Features

Web scraping
- Multi-layered web scraping approach to ensure success when analyzing a source
  - First layer: Query to get HTML of side, filtered by Cheerio to get core content
  - Second layer: Used when first approach doesn't work (custom HTML components, unique popups, etc.). Uses puppeteer to simulate a headless browser and get the text that a user would see
Video support
- Users can upload video files to be analyzed, giving them more choices in an increasingly diverse media landscape
Theme toggle
- Allows users to switch between light and dark modes in accoradance with their preferences
Bias examples
- Uses AI to display specific examples of bias, helping users to identify other instances in the future