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The FactSparrow extension gives you a clearer picture of websites you visit.
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Many news sites make claims about what’s happening in the world. Should you take them with a grain of salt, or should you assume they’ve done their due diligence?
FactSparrow collects factuality ratings from external media appraisers with transparent ratings systems.
The FactSparrow extension delivers these ratings to you whenever you’re on a site that’s been adjudicated.
The FactSparrow icon will glow different colors based on the factuality ratings of the website you’re viewing. (Please pin the extension to your browser in order to use this function!)
The service currently works best for US web domains.
☆ FactSparrow is a service of Repustar. Learn more: https://repustar.com/about
Questions or feedback? Drop us a line at [email protected]
Latest reviews
- (2022-01-23) Mirella Petrillo: The FactSparrow extension is an essential tool for college students! It is extremely simple to download and use. It saves me valuable time in evaluating sources to include in my own research. You don't need to be a student to find this extension useful, though! Anyone who reads news online will find FactSparrow helpful.
- (2022-01-22) Meghna Ravishankar: Really valuable to have this resource!
- (2022-01-18) Sasha Anderson: Beautifully designed and easy-to-use. A helpful and much needed tool to navigate information online.
- (2022-01-14) Austin Tannenbaum: Allows you to quickly check if a site you're encountering information on is trustworthy. Also has a handy feature that notifies the relevant services of sites that haven't been rated yet.
- (2022-01-13) Paul Holman-Kursky: With the number of sites out there claiming to offer "news" and "facts" it's hard to to figure out what to take seriously. This is a very useful tool for getting more insight into the credibility of the site you're on.
- (2022-01-13) Jacqueline Agustin: Very useful extension! I don't have many extensions on my browser, but this is definitely a keeper! As someone who who constantly works with emerging news and information, I have no doubt this will be an invaluable resource.
- (2022-01-13) Mike Folgner: FactSparrow can be used to get information on the reputation of a content source and a way to cross reference claims in the article with other articles about the same topics that have been fact checked. I'm definitely intrigued and will be using it especially on articles from sources that I don't already know.
- (2022-01-12) Tory Coffin: This is such a nifty and useful tool for all my web-based research! I love how convenient it makes gauging the credibility of news (and news-adjacent) sources. I'm a big fan! (& also a bit biased because I'm part of the Repustar team. Even so, I highly recommend you give it a try.) It has something to offer for everyone.
- (2022-01-12) Rokhaya Ba: As a college student, this extension helps me evaluate the credibility of sources, which certainly saves me time and frustration when completing large research projects. Plus, this extension makes my life so much simpler with its easy functions.
- (2022-01-12) Allegra Taylor: This is such a great idea, it's super convenient and easy to use! I think I'll send it to my mom.
- (2022-01-12) Alex Dahl: Useful!
- (2022-01-11) Anna Lenaker: I'm a big fan of this tool. It empowers me to be a smart and informed researcher, news consumer and overall learner––and, best of all, it's incredibly easy to use and quick to inform. (I am, however, a bit biased as I am on the team that helped build it! Even so, please consider giving this tool a go. I think you'll like it.)
- (2022-01-11) Kent Schoen: It is great to be able to get information in real time to be able to make up my mind about the trustworthness of the news I am reading.
- (2022-01-11) T Miller: This tool has tremendous potential as a guide to the factuality of news sites.
- (2022-01-11) Joshua Elser: great to use when i click through an article and don't know the publisher! the world needs this
- (2022-01-11) Jacob Alabab-Moser: Very easy way to become more informed about the quality of media that I consume. I would recommend it to anyone in this age of misinformation.
- (2022-01-10) John Mashey: It's early, but this has much promise. It's the kind of thing we need.
- (2022-01-07) Lisa Freedland: Super helpful, quick way to find out whether a website's information is reliable or not! Love the sparrow design, and how you're given the option to see the full rating of a website's reliability if you choose to!
- (2022-01-07) Amit Sankaran: Having a dynamic way to understand the source and contents of the news I'm reading in real time is incredibly useful!
- (2022-01-07) Samira Sankaran: The FactSparrow chrome extension was easy to download and easier to use. I could see myself using the extension for research purposes in college classes to check reliability, factuality, and to find additional credible resources.
- (2022-01-04) Robyn Sundlee: This extension is very helpful for instances where you're not sure about the reputation of a given site, or if a claim has been fact checked or not. (I'm biased because I'm on the team that helped build it! Please feel free to respond to this with any feedback!)
- (2021-12-28) Evan Gross: I was initially dubious about a fact checking extension but this actually worked really well and gave nice perspective about the various written fact checks on the internet associated with articles that I am reading. I also loved the sparrow design!!
- (2021-02-23) Madhu Reddy: The best Fact Checking platform!