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NewsGuard is for personal use only. Any commercial use of NewsGuard is strictly prohibited by our Terms of Service.
NewsGuard uses journalism to fight unreliable news. Our trained analysts, who are experienced journalists, research online news brands to help readers and viewers know which ones are trustworthy–and which ones aren’t.
Our Green-Red ratings signal if a website is trying to get it right or instead has a hidden agenda or knowingly publishes falsehoods or propaganda, giving readers more context about their news online.
A great addon for my browser that keeps me appraised of the stories that come across my TL/ Feed. I couldn’t be happier. Thanks ya’ll!
Works well. A few news sites I like aren’t covered but I’m sure they will be given time. I wish the service itself for individuals was more inexpensive but I can’t really fault them on needing funds to provide quality reviews.
I love the NewsGuard extension, especially the pop up grid! It’s so helpful to see the why I should trust a website or not. Great tool for all ages!
Super useful!
This extension was great til they started scamming credit card numbers to use it. They’re funded by Microsoft and all they’re doing by putting it behind a paywall is screwing over the little guy.
lmao triggered the american tories
I like the fact that this tool provides criteria of exactly how it rates news sites rather than someone just arbitrarily giving it a thumbs up or down. It does appear to lean left. Not sure if that is because there are actually more deceptive right leaning news sites or some intrinsic left bias of the staff. I can’t dismiss either assumption at this time but I applaud the idea of this tool.
I’m not sure how cost effective this app will be for me in the long run because I get most of my news from a few sources that I perceive as very trustworthy. However when I used this app to read up on a few of my long trusted sources my perceptions were validated, but I was really struck by the detail of the information provided about these sources I’ve long considered familiar. I really liked having that information, even though I’m not convinced I ‘need’ it all. I also read up on an oft mentioned news source that I have absolutely no trust in, and I learned of specific recent instances, thoroughly documented, illustrating why I shouldn’t trust it. The history of a news source (its founders and their histories) as well as the revelation of its major investors (along with some of their other investments listed) can be very informative. I really liked the thoroughness with which all this stuff was laid out, and so methodically too (there’s a checklist of attributes to analyze). How I heard of it was interesting to me: I was reading an article on the Democratic National Committee website about combatting disinformation and this app was recommended in that article. Since one party deals in facts and the other primarily in emotionally charged beliefs, whose recommendation to follow is a clear choice.
Extremely helpful, easy to read label for news wherever it shows up on the web. I like how it breaks down it’s rating into easy-to-understand characteristics and integrates with aggregators and Facebook.
Why should we have to pay a subscription fee for this kind of service? So freaking dumb…this should be free.
Everyone knows their own go-to everyday news sources, but this extension really helps me out when it comes to specialty news sites, e.g. medical – I’m not a medical professional and without NewsGuard I would have to look harder to make sure a site is reputable. Indeed, NewsGuard has helped me find specialty news sources that I have added to my favorites because I know I can depend on them.
And of course, as evidenced by all the one-star reviews, it helps filter out noise from the mean’n’nasty types too.
Definitely maintaining my subscription.
Does exactly what it says on the tin. If you favor more conservative news sources, it lets you know which ones are reputable, and which aren’t. If you favor more liberal news sources, the exact same. Better, it tells you why certain news sources are scored the way they are, and cites specific examples to support those ratings.
Very useful.The Economist brought me here.
Great design, clear about methodology, reviewers I find to be trustworthy, sadly necessary.
Very handy to see who owns the news sites, and where they receive their funding.
it explains the ratings it gives and they always check out. I see it has “bias” against commentary and activism in favor of news, a bias i can live with.
This is a great extension. I’ve seen criticism that it’s biased against conservative or right wing media, but those people cite Breitbart, Drudge, The Blaze. Uh, there’s a reason for that, folks. And, it merely says “proceed with caution”. Those sites do not practice sound journalistic integrity.
i liked it until they switched to a paid subscription…cant afford that
it works
With political bias against some new agency
It used to be alright, but now the nutrition label is behind a paywall. I can’t justify this extension without and explanation for its ratings and im not going to pay for this.
This is a highly-biased service. It gives MSM high marks across the board. It does NOT allow for the fact that MSM outlets, all the way down to bottom-feeding Buzzfeed and the always-lying Media Matters, can get a story wrong, even on accident (though much is on purpose), and ANYONE calling out those stories will get the bad ratings from NewsGuard. You have to use your own brain, and keep thinking for yourself. Forget using a biased service. It will only lead you astray. Read all the viewpoints for yourself and figure out who is lying to you yourself.
Incredibly biased. They will give activist organizations that repeatedly go against their ethos a green checkmark. One example is Media Matters.
They will also give a red exclamation mark against other websites that while not (no website is perfect to be honest), are certainly much, much better than other websites that do get a green checkmark such as the aforementioned Media Matters.
This application said that the Daily Caller was mostly factual and did not have clickbait headlines. This is the site that just made news today because they are claiming that covid-19 is a weapon that was bioengineered. This is a well-known site for conspiracy theories and general misinformation.
THe problem of identifying websites that are propogating disinformation is a difficult one that has not been solved. I sympathize with the authors of this site, but when it rates a site that is distributing information that is damaging to society, they need to stop and others need to be warned about them.
This is a long overdue innovation. There are lots of other data (and nonsense) streams that should be filtered by similar means.