The Factual - News Evaluator

News & Weather

Version: 7.1.9

Last Update: 2022-08-23

Overview

The Factual - News Evaluator is a Chrome extension developed by The Factual. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of The Factual - News Evaluator is 7.1.9, updated on 2022-08-23.
5,000+ users have installed this extension. 32 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .
developer website: thefactual.com

Get smarter about the news you read

Wondering if a news article you came across is worth your time? Is it well-researched? Is it too opinionated? Is it written by a reporter who is knowledgeable about the topic?

The Factual’s automatically evaluates how informative a news article is based on four factors:

1. Diversity and extent of sources
2. Level of opinionatedness
3. Author expertise on topic
4. Site's historical reputation.

The Factual’s grades are instantly displayed on any news article in your browser and even injected directly into your Facebook or Twitter feed.

Get the most informative stories on trending news topics via a daily newsletter at https://thefactual.com or in-realtime at https://thefactual.com/news in your new tab (option to turn on/off).

FAQ: http://www.thefactual.com/static/extfaq.html

Note on privacy: The Factual only analyzes news related sites and ignores all other sites. Any information collected is anonymous and not shared with anyone.

Support: [email protected]

Rating

32 ratings

Total Installs

5,000+

Information

Last Update

2022-08-23

Current Version

7.1.9

Size

3.25MiB

Author

The Factual

Website

thefactual.com

Category

News & Weather

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Latest Reviews


Steven Murphy 2020-09-20 Most news sources bring up no rating. I installed and tried clicking on various news article on the Google News page. Many such as CNN and USA Today showed no rating. I do not find any value from this extension.
Arul Velan 2019-11-27 With the amount of reading I do and news I consume, this extension is the best. Hands down, Factual is a simple addition to guide me and others to higher quality pieces. Good luck to the team.
Artex Jay 2019-05-14 Much better than what Newsguard has done, this evaluates the article not the news company. Albeit the way it rates the articles are pretty simplistic. has lots of room for improvements. and so far great extension for news reading. Edit: After more research I have found a few issues. Labels Far-left websites such as CounterPunch as reputable and have good journalistic standard which is completely incorrect. While seemingly having a left bias so that most of the conservative websites have low standards which is also incorrect. Good thing this is still in Beta as it still has quite a bit of work to do but i think they will get there! Many times the it get to N/A results on Cato Institute among others. Hope to see it out of Beta and fully working soon! Vox news is far from being reputable, they skew facts to fit their opinion as their website is mostly opinionated website. They very rarely or barely correct their mistakes that they have put especially if it's political. They even went so far as to justify the needless violence, against people who were misclassified as white supremacist or even escalated a peaceful gathering, perpetuated by Radical Leftist/neo communist, ANTIFA. There also appear to be a miscalculation of how many references there are on a certain webpage take for example Vox's House Bill article, it says that Vox is very divers sources and links. The article has 2 links and one of them refers back to their own website. At least you got the rating for Buzzfeed and Vice (both of them being relatively similar) are correct! Al Jazeera is a state run news agency it skews facts and misrepresents them to better represent themselves. It's funny that RT News is rated poorly but AL Jazeera which is just as bad is rated very well.
Eugene Joseph 2017-11-29 Thoughtful, well-designed, and minimalist extension that lets me know when the stories I'm reading are rough.
Will Cheung 2017-11-17 Biased stories is something I almost never think about, until I started using this chrome extension. Love it!