Know where your news comes from with detailed trust ratings and "nutrition labels" for news sources--and get warnings when you visit an unreliable site.
NewsGuard's detailed nutrition labels show how each site fares on each of the criteria along with an overall trust score of 0-100 and a detailed description of who's behind the site, its record of accuracy, and why it received its rating.
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NewsGuard's analysts, who are trained journalists, have assessed thousands of news sources that account for 95% of online engagement across the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, and Italy.
Sites are assessed based on nine apolitical journalistic criteria--like whether they regularly publish false content, use deceptive headlines, reveal who owns and finances them, or correct reporting errors.
* Warnings on political propaganda news sites funded by campaigns or PACs.
* Ratings icons next to links in your links on all of the top search engines, social media platforms, and news aggregation sites.
* Warnings on from hoaxes, conspiracy theories, advertising posing as news, and other unreliable sites.
We tell you which sites look like local news but are actually funded by political campaigns or PACs.
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* Summaries showing who owns each site, its political leaning if any, and how it performs on nine journalistic criteria.
* Detailed written descriptions of each site and why they passed or failed the nine criteria.
* A reliability score of 0-100 for each site based on its performance on our nine criteria.
* Warnings on hoax healthcare sites peddling unreliable advice and miracle cures.