d-AI-logue Disinfo Assistant — Georgios Petasis

d-AI-logue: Your Virtual Coach for Smarter Online Reading

Ever found yourself questioning whether what you're reading online is actually true? You're not alone — and d-AI-logue is here to help. Our intelligent virtual coach empowers you to critically analyse the accuracy of online information, guiding you to think deeply and independently.

d-AI-logue offers free and anonymous access to a powerful AI Assistant directly within your browser. Whether you're browsing websites or scrolling through social media, d-AI-logue is there to support your journey toward media literacy and critical thinking.

Designed especially for citizens and young adults, d-AI-logue doesn’t just hand you fact-checked answers — it walks you through a dialectical process, helping you reach your own informed conclusions. Through thoughtful questioning and interaction, our Virtual Coach trains you to spot misleading content and disinformation.

Key Features:

💬 AI-Powered Guidance: Engage with an interactive assistant that uses reflective questioning to help you evaluate news and online content.
🧠 Mini-Lessons: Access optional micro-lessons to deepen your understanding of media literacy and digital literacy.
🌐 Discussion Forum: Join a community of curious thinkers navigating today’s complex information ecosystem.
🧭 Intuitive Sidebar Interface: The extension opens in a customizable browser sidebar that sits alongside the content you're viewing, making it easy to analyze and reflect in real time.

Customisable User Interface:

Tailor the d-AI-logue experience to suit your preferences through the extension's settings menu. Options include:

Theme selection: Light, dark, or auto (based on your browser settings)
Header toolbar: Show or hide the top bar, and choose whether it's fixed or static
Navigation style: Switch between a sidebar or top-level menu layout
User menu visibility: Toggle display of the user menu
Text direction: Choose between left-to-right or right-to-left layout

All settings are saved locally in your browser cache and remain in place unless the extension is uninstalled.

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Do you know the feeling of doubt when reading information online? The feeling of not being sure about the trustworthiness of the content you are reading? We are here to help! d-AI-logue, our virtual coach is meant to teach you how to analyse the accuracy of the information you read online by guiding you to think critically.

The d-AI-logue extension provides users free and anonymous access to the d-AI-logue AI Assistant, from withing the browser, while browsing the web and social media.

d-AI-logue helps citizens and young adults who want to explore the veracity of information, by cultivating their critical stance and by guiding them through a dialectical path to reach their own conclusions instead of just consuming a fact-checking result.

Our innovative Virtual Coach guides you through reflective questioning to detect disinformation signals in news articles, empowering you to make informed decisions about their accuracy. Dive deeper with optional micro-lessons and join our vibrant discussion forum for extra support in navigating the digital information landscape.

The d-AI-logue Web Extension offers a user interface contained in a browser "sidebar", an area appearing next to a Web page. The user is able to customise this user interface, through a settings, icon. Available settings include the ability to select a light/dark theme (defaults to 'auto', trying to decide on a light/dark theme based on browser settings), the ability to show/hide the "header" (the top tool-bar) and whether it can be "fixed" or "static", the ability to control the navigation within the d-AI-logue extension, by selecting between a sidebar o a top-level menu, the ability to show the user menu, and the ability to set the text direction (left-to-right/right-to-left). Settings are stored in the browser's cache, and are remembered until the d-AI-logue extension is uninstalled.