NewsGuard

Tyler Rudie

2021-08-18

Garbage Left-Wing company that pretends to be neutral. Currently acting like a Digital Democratic Hit Man.

Artex Jay

2021-07-23

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.

cat

2021-06-05

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

Maloqu OQ

2021-03-28

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.

Jason Wallwork

2021-02-12

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.