Chrome Extension: Political Bias Analyzer (Local LLAMA + OpenAI)

A Chrome extension that analyzes political bias in news articles and web content by extracting article content and providing a visual breakdown of left vs. right political leaning percentages. The extension can leverage either a local LLAMA API or OpenAI’s API for bias analysis.

What I Learned

This was a fun project. I built a Chrome extension that reads web page content and integrates with LLM APIs and OpenAI APIs for real-time analysis. I learned to parse AI outputs and visualize data with interactive charts.

Project Repositories

• OpenAI edition
• LLAMA edition

Project Folder Structure

chromeextension.Ideologicallabeling/
+-- manifest.json    # Extension configuration
+-- popup.js         # Main popup interface logic
+-- hello.html       # Extension popup UI
+-- content.js       # Content script for article extraction
+-- background.js    # Background service worker
+-- README.md

LLAMA Edition

The LLAMA edition uses a local LLAMA API for bias analysis, allowing the extension to run against a locally hosted model instead of relying on a hosted LLM provider.

OpenAI Edition

The OpenAI edition uses OpenAI’s API for real-time article analysis and response generation. The extension extracts article content from the page, sends it for analysis, parses the model response, and renders a visual left vs. right leaning breakdown in the popup UI.