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: 30,483 ▼ -244

Rating: 4.60 (199)

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

# 877 ▼ 7

Other rankings

#52 in News & weather ▼ 12

#2 in trust keyword 39

#5 in cover keyword 9

#5 in financing keyword 3

#8 in label keyword 9

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Other platforms

NewsGuard (v5.6)

3.58 (513) 30,000

NewsGuard (v5.6)

3.37 (241) 2,258

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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

Easily accessible ratings
In-depth explanation of ratings
Balanced analysis of sites across political spectrums
Helps filter out fake news spreaders
Transparent report on site interaction

Cons

Biased towards liberal progressive establishment news sources
Engages in partisan smear campaigns
Not trustworthy for neutral information on newsworthiness

Most mentioned

Easily accessible ratings
Biased towards liberal progressive establishment news sources
Balanced analysis of sites across political spectrums
Helps filter out fake news spreaders
In-depth explanation of ratings

Recent reviews

Muito bom! Só precisam analisar com mais rapidez varias paginas que sao enviadas para analise e nao ter só avaliação de sites grandes internacionais!

by Jonatas, 2021-04-03

Really pleased with NewsGuard and the transparent report they provide regarding their interaction with the site and how they came to the conclusions they came to.

by John, 2021-04-28

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

by Tommaso, 2022-02-20

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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.