NewsGuard

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NewsGuard's rating shields and labels help users know which news and information websites to trust.

Latest reviews

• (2023-11-11) Keith B: Left wing positions cloaked as a neutral party.
• (2023-05-15) Dean Williamson: Excellent. Well done. We all need to develop a critical eye around misinformation and understand the impact.
• (2023-02-04) Antonio Betalli: Ho avuto modo di poter provare l'estensione. Molto utile per avere fin da subito un idea su come leggere una notizia. Leggendo le altre recensioni dimostra anche di essere molto cresciuta in questi anni, ampliando il suo database di testate giornalistiche e blog divulgativi, e di aver aumentato i dettagli delle valutazioni fatte. L'unica pecca, facilmente rimediabile, (forse è successo solamente a me) è l'attivazione dell'estensione macchinosa. Avevo difficoltà nell'accedere e successivamente era necessario riavviare il browser per poterla utilizzare.
• (2022-12-06) Mitch: Transparent ratings.
• (2022-11-23) Jordan Hicks: Not as unbiased as they claim to be; they willingly turn a blind eye to some right-wing outlets: https://checkmyads.org/branded/how-newsguard-boosts-the-american-disinformation-economy/
• (2022-11-02) Raymond van Toor: ‘To access NewsGuard sign in or start a free trial below. Sign In / Access Code. Free 2-weeks unlimited access to NewsGuard’s Ratings on desktop/mobile.’
• (2022-10-09) Ralph Janke: It is a fraud. Does not tell that is requires subscription until after install. Waste of time.
• (2022-08-16) Dave Kretz: Legitimizes dis/misinformation. Worse than useless, it's harmful
• (2022-08-15) Schuemer Meister: absolute garbage
• (2022-07-27) Jay Halderman: Unreliable ratings. Clearly a compromised service/organization.
• (2022-06-19) Z. Z: Two big issues. --- 1. It has a subscribtion mode with 2 weeks trial. 2. USAToday is still 100/100 after they have fabricated at least 23 news outlets. This is just corporate shilling.
• (2022-03-17) John Colascione: NewsGuard editors are shills and hacks; they lie, and work towards making publishers look as poorly as possible. They lied about my news company I sold calling it "defunct" just because I am no longer there anymore trying to make me look bad when it remains a living thriving media business. I told them they should correct it twice, two years in a row... They do not care about accuracy, only their agenda. App is worthless. Red should signal what to believe and green should signal sites to avoid. Totally unreliable.
• (2022-02-18) Jeremy Anoc: An invaluable resource. To the naysayers: read their detailed "Nutrition Label" for a given website to understand why it has been given its rating before you make blanket statements about "bias."
• (2021-12-30) Thomas Riekel: Nur für diejenigen geeignet die sich keine eigene Meinung mehr bilden wollen bzw. können. Letztendlich eine Vorstufe zur Meinungsdiktatur bzw geradlinig zum Wahrheitsministerium von 1984.
• (2021-11-30) John Majchrzak: Garbage, have to pay a subscription.
• (2021-11-30) Tournel Henry: At first, I liked this extension. But it turns out, like Facebook's "fact-checkers", they're aligned with Left-leaning news orgs. Hopefully they're not part of the Poynter institute also. But this is not a very neutral news sources monitor
• (2021-11-20) Susie S. aus B.: Blick ich's nicht oder wollen die meine E-Mail und Kohle? Schade, hab viel darüber gelesen und wollte es eigentlich invers verwenden um die interessanten Sites (rot) zu erkennen und Propaganda (grün) zu meiden
• (2021-11-19) Adolfo Grosso: Es de pago, y me decepcionó mucho, no puedo usarla gratis.
• (2021-11-18) A Hofmann: funktioniert nicht stabil auf meinem asus notebook 12gb RAM
• (2021-10-07) John Miller: Seems that this doesn't work without a subscription.
• (2021-09-21) pushy Rummble: Yeah this is bias, I've seen many stories that ended up being fake news or lies from certain stories and they are rated to no lie in their articles. Yeah this is just a tool to manipulate you into thinking a fake story is true.
• (2021-09-18) jo jo: Absurdly biased toward the left. Its working but in reverse. I know not to trust the green checks. This app is reported in Breaking The News book as even having red flagged breitbart merch shop; and identical transcripts on right wing sites will flag red while leftwing are green.
• (2021-08-18) Tyler Rudie: Garbage Left-Wing company that pretends to be neutral. Currently acting like a Digital Democratic Hit Man.
• (2021-07-29) Fahad Khan: Useless.
• (2021-07-23) Art: Use this with Microsoft Edge browser if you want to use it completely free. Apart from marking many reputable conservative news as well as well known info leakers like wikileaks, and veritas sources as dangerous or proceed with caution it's a decent app. It still has a strong bias to the left, they ignore the huge amount of misinformation made by CNN, MSNBC and many others left-wing sources. As well as strive to make an unbiased algorithm that scans all if not most of the articles on the website and cross references it with known or the truth of the events and mark them as such. This would be a better approached to using biased humans to rate the channels. This app should also show what is the political leanings using the articles written as well. Some news sites may be missing from the rating system and some may have an obviously false mark like that of CNN, Buzzfeed (really?), and a few others. Once you get the algorithm and fixing the rating bias and rating scores, get rid of your advisory board, practically all of them if not most are extremely biased. Decent for general view of either a news source is overall reliable but the users must take into account the left-leaning slant this extension has and look through the reasons why newsguard deems a news source unreliable, some of the reasons are either petty, seemingly political reasons, or something that science has either failed to address or have yet to address. Many sources that they label as untrustworthy are actually fine, if they fail minimum 2 of the checks in the news category they automatically fail. But all these ratings are subjected to change at any moments notice. So what the app deems unreliable today might be reliable tomorrow, and reason is not simply because they either corrected how they report but more-so on what they report, newsguard must be careful to not push the latter and only check the former.
• (2021-06-10) Jiří Doubravský: Fake news si zasluhují varovnou nálepku na svůj falešný xicht (samozřejmě i nadále je otázkou nakolik důvěřujete právě NewsGuard, jejich nestrannost je nutné prověřovat). Pro mne ale a pro tuto chvíli je to velmi dobrý a užitečný doplněk.
• (2021-06-05) tzen tzen 丞丞: >mfw people are finding out conservatives cant stop lying about everything. if you're looking to validate your current views of the world maybe don't rely on professional fact checkers
• (2021-04-23) Andy Dalrymple: No longer offers free ratings icon.
• (2021-03-28) Maloqu OQ: Soon after I had installed this extension, I went on google to understand why I had dry feet. And the first result was flagged by NewsGuard as unreliable (selling miracle creams to gullible readers). I think this example illustrates how hard it is to get trustworthy information on the web, even when you shun the usual relays of disinformation. NewsGuard is very useful to assess in a glance the reliability of your google results.
• (2021-02-23) walt white: 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!
• (2021-02-12) Jason Wallwork: 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.
• (2021-01-26) Vicky Weiss: 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!
• (2021-01-22) Jack Crovitz: Super useful!
• (2021-01-11) Rum Lord: 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.
• (2020-11-22) Rahul Sujan: lmao triggered the american tories
• (2020-11-20) Clay Groves: 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.
• (2020-11-14) Kevin Thornton: 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.
• (2020-09-26) Neal Sidhwaney: 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.
• (2020-08-27) Someone Else: Why should we have to pay a subscription fee for this kind of service? So freaking dumb...this should be free.
• (2020-08-19) Pat Reynolds: 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.
• (2020-08-17) Jon Major: 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.
• (2020-08-05) Suanik Suane: Very useful.The Economist brought me here.
• (2020-07-13) Miriam Herschlag: Great design, clear about methodology, reviewers I find to be trustworthy, sadly necessary.
• (2020-06-29) Henry Tranter: Very handy to see who owns the news sites, and where they receive their funding.
• (2020-06-29) Randy Stutler: 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.
• (2020-06-27) Joe Cseko: 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.
• (2020-04-11) Paul Lo: i liked it until they switched to a paid subscription...cant afford that
• (2020-04-09) Corin Holloway: it works
• (2020-04-07) Xian Fan: With political bias against some new agency
• (2020-03-30) Christian Campa: 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.