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Description from extension meta
Get valuable insights on the news you read online.
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Know what you're unfolding
Nobias alerts you to the bias and credibility of news articles and authors before you even read them. Adding Nobias to Chrome means you will be able to detect hidden bias and fake news in Google Search results, your Facebook News Feed and on select news sites. Nobias will help you burst your filter bubble and give you more control over the news and information you consume.
We’re like a Fitbit for your media diet. In the age of social media, many of us ambiently consume news by reading headlines and descriptions that appear in our news feeds. Nobias provides more context around articles in your newsfeeds before you read it, wherever you read it, making them less likely to be misleading. You decide whether to click on the article, helping you retrain the algorithms that shape what you read and see online.
Our insights include the political and financial biases of the article, along with the credibility of the author and site, to keep fake news in check and hold authors accountable. By hovering over the little paw prints or buy/sell icons that appear next to articles, you can see our insights right in your browser on Google Search, your Facebook news feed or your favorite newspaper. With Nobias, you can be selective of what you read and as well as become aware of other perspectives, to develop your own unique point of view. Nobias helps you better manage your daily media diet through a more informed interaction with personalization algorithms..
★ Political and Financial slant checker
Nobias detects the political or financial slant of the article as either left, center or right leaning for political articles and buy, neutral or sell leaning for financial articles and highlights that slant with a colored icons (paw print or buy/sell) as a visual ratings system.
★ Credibility checker
Nobias uses LexisNexis databases for general news to show you which news sources have the most reputable editorial boards and the most integrity. You'll be able to read with confidence and avoid tabloid journalism and yellow journalism. Additionally, article level insights include credibility of the author based on employer rating and journalistic awards won by the author and in the case of financial articles, a combination of accuracy, average expected return and number of articles written by the author.
★ Productivity tool
Nobias isn’t just for avid news readers, students, and journalists. If you want to know what you’re reading without even clicking, Nobias is for you. It’s a productivity tool for your media consumption that saves the time you spend reading news online. It’s a life hack in a Chrome extension.
★ Thousands of news sources tracked
When you use Google Search or scroll through your Facebook news feed, you’ll see the Nobias paw prints next to over 80% of links. Additionally, you can see Nobias slants within the news sites of over 25 national and regional newspapers. We are constantly updating our databases to include more news sites, authors and articles as they are published.
Nobias - Keeping you informed of bias and credibility in news media.
Latest reviews
- (2020-09-11) John Franson: Unfortunately, it got the article ratings wrong too often to be really useful.
- (2019-08-19) Juan Mendez: A smart and friendly little watchdog that warns you about fake news and bias content.
- (2019-07-10) Damla Ozdalga: Super helpful extension and works very well with many sources - would highly recommend! It's impossible to be familiar with every news source and this does a good job of assessing and helping you filter the noise
- (2019-05-18) Bryan “Ironman” Stark: The idea is 5-star but implementation is 2-star, e.g. 3-star total IMHO. For example it claims that CNN is a highly credible "slightly center left leaning" source, when they are the epitome of fake-news! So credibility is based upon how wide-spread the news is world-wide, i.e. "wide-spread." However, if you could count how many times they went with fake stories that they had to retract, they would definitely be low-credible source. To be fair they are mostly correct on a binary level; they correctly identify news that caters to the left or right of center, even if they incorrectly portray to what degree.
- (2019-05-01) Ashish kumar naagar: Well, TBH I stumble upon this by mistake but Now I am loving it. If you love reading and majority of your time spent in front of computer screen you shouldn't miss this extension. Would love a app which can work on android. That would be lovely.
- (2019-04-30) Tnmy Crprt: Online news is like the Wild West now. Who are you supposed to trust anymore. Not even sure about this but I’m going to give it a shot and see.
- (2019-04-29) My Game: Imho I don’t know if I’d use this every day as there are certain publications that I trust no matter what even if I don’t agree with the author or the opinion in the article. Still this seems like it could help with some of those publications I’m not familiar with and if I should even bother reading it.
- (2019-02-26) Rubel Ahmed: This is great. Don’t even know it’s working in the background until I go to search for news. Then I can check if I should read it or not.
- (2019-02-25) Like this - is it on Firefox too? Or is there an app? It seems like it only works on a regular computer and I read the news on my phone more.
- (2019-02-24) Md Sayed Hossain: So I saw a Facebook ad for this thing and decided why not. I’m a journalism student - not sure why when it seems like journalists are not the favorite people right now. Anyways makes me think about what are my own biases and if I can even write without them. I just want to get a job out of school.
- (2019-02-21) abir mahmud: Having diff points of view is a good thing . But hearing the other side is good . trying to burst the bubble. this is one of the best extension for chrome try it for your self.
- (2019-02-20) Tech Browse: Very Nice. Don’t even know it’s working in the background until I go to search for news. Then I can check if I should read it or not.
- (2019-02-20) Goutam Roy: Interesting. Does seem to work on telling you the politics of any news item before you are going to read it. Wish it worked with some of the international publications I read.
- (2019-02-19) rock kihiminsky: I can’t stand reading any of the liberal rags out there. And every day it seems like there is just more snowflake whining. Usually I stick to the Twitters I know but if I want to know ahead of time what the slant is going to be this helps. Done with yellow journalists.
- (2019-02-19) Tarikul islam: Nifty. I’m super curious to know if people are using this and then avoiding certain articles or still reading them even though they get this information ahead of time.
- (2019-02-11) Elenore Reinhart: Filters out the news. Still up to you what to read since it doesn’t block it.
- (2019-02-01) Since i can’t stand reading any of the liberal rags out there. And every day it seems like there is just more snowflake whining. Usually I stick to the Twitters I know but if I want to know ahead of time what the slant is going to be this helps. Done with yellow journalists.
- (2019-01-31) Gopinath Radhakrishnan: I just watched a ted talk about filter bubbles and did some googling ad then wound up here. I get it. We are trapped in a Matrix of algorithms that is hard to break out of. The big companies try to personalize everything for you so much but it's like if I click on one article about a Kardashian they think I'm only interested in that stuff and I swear I'm not. It seems like you can use this to kind of retain the algorithms or to break them even. I dunno. I think it'll take some time for it to do that but we'll see.
- (2019-01-30) Elahi Hossen: This is great. Don’t even know it’s working in the background until I go to search for news. Then I can check if I should read it or not.
- (2019-01-30) ginga rayuga: with all talk about facebook and fake news i wanted a way to try to block some of it i already had the trump blocker lol but then i found this it does not block the news but it tells you if its from a real source or what that helps me decide if i should read it
- (2019-01-24) Marou81 Hardcore Gamer: Service to request robocalls to interrupt a holiday argument and to step back and cool off
- (2019-01-24) Rohit Ghosh: This is a very good extension.It helps me to determine the political bias and credibility of news articles before I read them.Using this extension I am able to detect fake news in Google Search and in my Facebook News Feed.I recommend this highly.
- (2019-01-24) It is a Best usefull Extention . Thanks For Extention Builder.
- (2019-01-24) Anders Zhou: Echo all the previous ratings; this extension comes in so handy!
- (2019-01-10) reena talwar: This is awesome! With so much bias all around in media, its very helpful to have this!!
- (2019-01-09) Kavita Raghavan: its nice to have
- (2019-01-07) Athena Bressack: Love that this extension gives me helpful information about articles before I even click.
- (2018-12-14) Linda Cohen: There is so much bias in news today. This tool is really helpful. I enjoyed being able to find out what the "others" are saying/reading.
- (2018-12-05) Amalia Halikias: I hate clicking on an article *once* and then receiving constant ads or recommendations for similar content, over and over. This is my go-to extension for fixing that problem -- it ID's political bias & gauges an article's credibility before I ever click.
- (2018-11-19) Michael Bellavia (Michael at HelpGood): Interesting to get a heads up on what I'm reading.