Dublin Students Create App To Combat Bias, Misinformation

DUBLIN, CA — Four Dublin High School students won second place in Congressman Mark DeSaulnier’s Congressional App Challenge with Politica AI , an extension and website that helps readers recognize political biases and misinformation in articles they read. DHS students Rohan Vij, Ayush Garg, Jimin Lim, and Mohit Varikuti used a large language model sensitive to existing media biases to create instant bias, factuality, and trustworthiness ratings for millions of articles. Users can copy and paste a link into the website, and receive information on the news source according to...