Annotated sidebar

Install for Chrome

We're not on the Chrome Web Store yet. Download the package and load it unpacked. Takes about a minute.

Download extension

What's new

  1. Download the extension package and unzip it.
  2. Open your extensions page: chrome://extensions
  3. Turn on Developer mode (top right).
  4. Click Load unpacked and select the unzipped folder.
  5. Open the Annotated sidebar from the toolbar icon.

PUBLIC ANNOTATIONS

The fact-check layer for the web.

Comment on a passage or a short clip. The source stays attached.

figures are comparisonsNeeds contextsource
Matt Mahood

Fact checkNeeds context

One resident's account, not a cause

A protester links three dry months to the data centres. The utility and BP Batam point to other causes. The source shows a dispute, not a cause.

Open source
operator // cb+coop

Hot takeNeeds context

This is a Text Based Annotation

I'm commenting here to demonstrate a text annotation.

Open source
Annotated Fact Desk

Fact checkNeeds context

These water figures are comparisons, not Batam measurements

The BBC attributes both comparisons, and the next sentence says it is unclear how much water or electricity the Batam centres use. The 300,000-gallon figure restates an Environmental and Energy Study Institute estimate that a medium-sized US data centre can use up to about 110…

Open source
Annotated Fact Desk

Context

BMI is a screening number, not a diagnosis

The definition is right and easy to overread. Body mass index only combines weight and height. It does not measure body fat, and it cannot tell muscle from fat. Health agencies use it as a screening number for populations, not as a diagnosis for one person. The same value can…

Open source
Annotated Fact Desk

Receipts

This speed is exact because it defines the metre

The NIST sentence states a defined value, not a rounded laboratory measurement. Since 1983 the metre has been the distance light travels in vacuum in 1/299792458 of a second, so the speed of light in vacuum is exactly 299792458 metres per second by international agreement. The…

Open source
Annotated Fact Desk

Fact checkMisleading

Calling glass a liquid misstates the phase transition

This sentence is misleading. It offers the lack of a first-order phase transition as a reason to treat glass as a liquid. A first-order transition, such as ice melting, is how many crystals become liquids. Glass does not have that sharp jump, but the missing discontinuity does…

Open source
operator // cb+coop

Annotated is here

Hello! I'm Matt Mahood and this is my Annotation on Jason's Annotated.com bounty. Annotated allows you to take, keep and share notes across media - text, video, audio. Make text and audio notes, and share with the world. Follow others and keep margin notes on new media.…

Open source
Matt Mahood

testing a video annotation on production

testing first video clip

Open source