{"id":299184,"date":"2019-03-13T15:54:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T13:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=299184"},"modified":"2019-03-13T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T13:55:47","slug":"new-chrome-extension-will-hide-toxic-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/299184-new-chrome-extension-will-hide-toxic-comments.html","title":{"rendered":"New Chrome extension will hide toxic comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jigsaw, a side-project at Alphabet, has <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/jigsaw\/tune-control-the-comments-you-see-b10cc807a171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> that it will release Tune: a Chrome extension that blocks toxic comments on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>This new extension will give people &#8220;the ability to control for themselves what kind of comments they want to see&#8221;, said Jigsaw.<\/p>\n<p>Tune is based on the same technology that powers Jigsaw&#8217;s Perspective software, which is an API that rates the impact comments have on conversations, including how toxic they are.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jigsaw, Tune will allow users to choose the level of toxicity they are willing to see, including a &#8220;zen mode&#8221; where comments are completely blocked.<\/p>\n<p>Jigsaw acknowledges that Tune&#8217;s machine learning algorithms are still experimental, meaning that it will not hide all toxic comments and may sometimes block non-toxic comments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather, it\u2019s an experiment to show people how machine learning technology can create new ways to empower people as they read discussions online,&#8221; said Jigsaw.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/299114-google-launches-chrome-73.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google launches Chrome 73<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jigsaw has announced that it will release Tune, a Chrome extension that will block toxic comments on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":221438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[32030,1567,46739,15978],"class_list":["post-299184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-alphabet","tag-chrome","tag-jigsaw-holdings","tag-toxicity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299186,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299184\/revisions\/299186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}