NewsGuard

ella black2019年2月1日

★★★★★1

Bad Why would you need an app to do the thinking for you anyway? if I'm going to follow someone's bias I'd rather it be my own, not someone else's as some may have guessed already, most news websites marked with red are conservative (Weaky leaks, Breitbart) some like the Daily wire and Fox News are marked in green but rated 6 or 7 based on their nine criteria factors while the liberal ones are marked all green like CNN and Buzzfeed (yeah those ones caught recently blatantly lying about the maga hat students and the Michael Cohen case, respectively) I just installed the extension to see how bad It was and I'm not disappointed. So yeah I suggest you do your own research you'll feel better with yourself. Even if you are liberal because most liberals already hate conservative media outlets so you don't need an app to tell you that.

Vineeth Mohan2019年1月31日

★★★★★1

One of the stupidest app in the entire chrome web store.

Chris Brown2019年1月31日

★★★★★1

This app does not work. It gives the green check mark for conspiracy sites and fake news, while good sources are rated as dangerous.

Doug Renz2019年1月31日

★★★★★1

This is garbage and reports incorrectly. Fake! Don't use!

Brandon Swanson2019年1月31日

★★★★★1

Mislabels many websites incorrectly with red.

Rick2019年1月31日

★★★★★1

Biased and incorrect

Anonymous user2019年1月28日

★★★★★1

I've been using this browser extension for around three weeks now and feel some major concerns need to be highlighted. I consider myself fairly non-partisan and get my news and info from a range of different sources that I know and trust, while at the same time, there's a few news outlets that I avoid because I don't trust them through my own experience. I don't need a browser plug-in to tell me otherwise about these sites. The reason I tried this is I often come across a lot of unfamiliar sites on the net, and thought this could be a useful guide when approaching these sites, while potentially being a good way to find some new trusted sources. The first thing you notice about NewsGuard is that it is incredibly biased. I don't mean just mildly either, I mean suspiciously so. It's enough to make you wonder what the actual motive behind NewsGuard is, because it doesn't seem to giving honest, un-biased critique. For example, as some have already mentioned, CNN and BuzzFeed both get glowing reviews with a green badge of "trust". Whether you consider yourself left or right, it's fair to say that both these outlets are known to put out fake news. In fact, I don't see any sites that I know to be left-leaning with the red "untrusted" badge. Maybe there are some, but none that I saw. Something that immediately set off alarm bells was seeing the red badge on the Drudge Report and WikiLeaks. Drudge report is an aggregate site and only posts links to other websites(all the websites it links to seem to have the green badge), and I'm not aware of Drudge every posting anything that has been proven false. As for Wikileaks, surely that is the most trusted source of all? It has never published anything that has been proven wrong and only puts out complete, unaltered documents without any editing. How can you not trust that? Aside from the bias reviews, something of concern is that while a lot of websites have been reviewed, many more haven't. You may come across a glaringly obvious Russian bot site spamming fake news on Facebook that hasn't been rated, while the Daily Mail has got a red badge. No matter what your opinion is on the Daily Mail, you can't honestly say that it's less trustworthy than an actual fake spam site. Overall, while I think the world is crying out for a tool like this, this particular one has massively missed the mark. So much so, in fact, that it must be corrupt. If you do decide to download this tool, here's a simply way to translate its rating: Red Badge = Pro Trump. Green Badge = Anti-Trump. It has nothing to do with trust and everything to do with propaganda. If you need a browser plug in to tell you how to think, then enjoy.

Art2019年1月26日

★★★★★3

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.

Marko Brzica2019年1月26日

★★★★★1

This is a political propaganda application, what it does is that it marks all leftist and establishment sites as validated and all other as suspect or untrustworthy.

Giorgio Orsucci2019年1月26日

★★★★★5

Unobtrusive elements that reminds us whether the source of information is trustworthy or requires caution. It may gradually extend its coverage to social media channels or pages (channels on YouTube, pages on Facebook, ...)