Semblen for Chrome

Click the Semblen icon on any article and a side panel shows the rhetorical techniques in it: loaded language, name calling, appeals to fear and more. Each one has its words marked and a sentence on why it was flagged. It's free.

Add to Chrome From the Chrome Web Store. Works in Chrome 116 or later on a computer.

The extension runs in Chrome on a computer. On a phone, paste a link or text into the analyzer instead.

A Senate floor speech open in Chrome with the Semblen side panel beside it. The panel says 3 of 6 paragraphs use a rhetorical technique: Loaded Language, Exaggeration, Bandwagon Appeal and Name Calling. — A Senate floor speech from the Congressional Record. The panel sums up which techniques the speech uses and where.

The Semblen panel showing one paragraph of the speech with its loaded phrases highlighted, and a note naming each technique and the words behind it. — Pick a technique to see the words it was found in, and why.

A White House press release open in Chrome with the Semblen panel beside it, showing 1 of 7 paragraphs uses a technique and that the sources quoted are one-sided. — A White House press release. The panel also shows who the piece quotes and whether its sources lean one way.

How to use it

Add Semblen from the Chrome Web Store.
Open a news article, an opinion piece or a press release.
Click the Semblen icon in your toolbar, or press Alt+Shift+S. The results open in a side panel next to the page.

To check only part of a page, select the text first, then click the icon. Pin the icon so it stays in view: click the puzzle-piece icon at the top right of Chrome, then the pin next to Semblen.

What it does with the page

Nothing runs until you click the icon. It reads the page only when you click, and only that tab.
The article's text is sent to semblen.com to be analyzed. The address of the page is sent only if you ask for the claims to be checked.
It doesn't change the page, show ads, or collect your browsing history.
The permissions it asks for: activeTab (read the tab you clicked on), scripting (pull the article's text out of that tab), sidePanel (show the results), storage (pass the page to the panel), and access to semblen.com.

Free readers get 5 analyses a day. Semblen Pro raises the limit if you're signed in. To remove it, right-click the Semblen icon and choose Remove from Chrome.

See the privacy policy and terms. Made by Semblen LLC in Austin, Texas.

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