NewsGuard

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

What is NewsGuard?

NewsGuard is an innovative browser extension for Edge that provides reliability ratings for news and information sources, aiding users in making informed decisions about the credibility of their news sources. By offering an insight into each website's ownership, financing, content, and transparency practices, NewsGuard equips users with crucial information to avoid falling for misinformation and disinformation. The ratings and scores cover 95% of news websites with major online engagement. They are conducted by a team of veteran journalists using nine basic, apolitical journalistic criteria, producing an overall trustworthiness score and detailed report for each site.

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By: NewsGuard Technologies

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Users: 33,464 ▼ -247

Rating: 4.60 (205) ▼ 9 ratings

Version: 5.6 (Last updated: 2023-11-28)

Creation date: 2022-01-18

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
storage
https://*/
nativeMessaging

Size: 1.72M

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 819 ▼ 17

Other rankings

#46 in News & weather ▼ 2

#2 in trust keyword 40

#4 in cover keyword 8

#8 in label keyword 9 ▼ 1

#37 in rating keyword 6 ▼ 1

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Other platforms

NewsGuard (v5.6)

3.58 (513) 40,000

NewsGuard (v5.6)

3.37 (242) 2,382

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Summary

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NewsGuard's reliability ratings for news and information sources help users make decisions about which news sources to trust—and avoid misinformation and disinformation.

Our ratings, scores, and Nutrition Labels for websites are displayed next to links on search engines and social media platforms and cover all the news websites accounting for 95% of online engagement.

Ratings are conducted by a team of experienced journalists using nine basic, apolitical journalistic criteria. Each site receives a trust score of 0-100, an overall rating level ranging from “High Credibility” to “Proceed with Caution,” and a thorough Nutrition Label report detailing the site’s ownership and financing, content, credibility practices, transparency practices, and history.

NewsGuard is for personal use only. Any commercial, research, or other non-personal use of NewsGuard is strictly prohibited by our Terms of Service: https://www.newsguardtech.com/terms-of-service/

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Edge Add-on Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Helpful in identifying credible and non-credible news sources
Includes detailed 'nutrition labels' for understanding why a source is rated a certain way
Free to use on the new Edge platform
Offers a quick background check of websites to filter out fake news
Balanced analysis across political spectrums according to some users

Cons

Perceived as biased towards liberal and leftist media outlets by some users
Accusations of being a censorship tool with connections to the US government
Lack of transparency in rating process for some users
Changes to the UI that result in less information being shown on popups
Some users find the ratings unreliable and compromised

Most mentioned

Bias or perceived bias in ratings
Connection to or funding by the US government
Utility in identifying trustworthy news sources
Ease of use and accessibility of information
Categorization of mainstream news outlets

Recent reviews

Una delle estensioni più utili sullo store. Ora che è gratuita sul nuovo Edge consiglio a tutti di installarla.

by Tommaso, 2022-02-20

Displays many mainstream outlets as green despite them having tons of issues where they have omitted facts and information. They have recently began to engage in partisan smear campaign where if an outlet questions or reports news differently from that of the mainstream left-wing outlets it will rate it as red. The people in charge of this organization are left wings or neocons ranging center-left to moderates and further left. Take their rating with a grain of salt. I personally have found in their analysis some misleading claims, even their lack of proofs compared to many MSM outlets. Update: They have now changed their popup to show less information about the website. This is a net negative.

by Art, 2022-01-21

It's totally unacceptable that sites which to now follow leftish mainstream agenda are disqualified and reported and "misleading".

by Keiner, 2021-11-22

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Safety

Risk impact

NewsGuard is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install NewsGuard if you trust the publisher.