NewsGuard - News Trust Ratings Reviews

by TripleR

This is a blatant leftist created app that flags factual and proven true news as misleading or false. It also shows proven fake news to be true and trustworthy. If you look at the group of people that run this laughable cringeworthy project, you’ll understand why they do this. Orwell really was ahead of his time. They should just call themselves the Ministry of Truth while they’re at it.

by Just336674

I use this site for SEO reasons and even pay to post fake articles on many "trusted" news site. These news companies care about money, links, and clicks. Pay them enough and just about any of the most "trusted" sources will post your spin on what the news is.

by FiatLarry

This is a pay app but they don’t say that up front. You can sign up for an account and when you get to the give us your credit card information, there’s an option that says “Continue signing up for a 2-week free trial subscription,” but you’re required to give your credit card information. Huh?? If you don’t want to, there’s a “Maybe Later” link that should be labeled (if they’re being truthful), “click here to leave this page but you won’t be able to use NewsGuard until you give us your credit card information even though we have a 2-week “free” trial.”

by Rangernine

But before they tell you that you need a subscription, they ask you to sign up by giving your email. For a service that purports to grade sources based on their integrity, this is NOT transparent and a huge fail.

I rate you: DISHONEST.

by Little Pooobah

I installed NewsGuard and it prompted me to login, but there was no way to login. No way to create an account. No link. No nothing. Their useless so-called help menu only took me back to the initial tutorial, Which is useful only if you can actually open NewsGuard , which I could not. I deleted this stupid app. Too bad: it’s a great idea, much needed. But they need to hire a UX designer who has actually graduated from middle school.

by 7wilson77

Run by lefty looneys….. color coded cause the dumb can’t read !!!! Run by woke people from a university !

Vet your fact checkers properly because if you research this one just like Politifact …… you’ll find a history of being wrong and the facts are mostly opinions !!!!

And opinions are not facts !!

by Klint2

I was initially excited to use NewsGuard as I appreciate its business model. Unfortunately, it’s yet another extremely partisan and unreliable “fake news” filter. Reminds me of Snopes in that respect. They even still refuse to retract publishing that Hunter Biden’s laptop can’t be proven to be his after the New York Times finally admitted it was. This type of gaslighting propaganda is why nobody trusts the MSM anymore.

by Ablock123

I an an unapologetic liberal. I am also a news junky who hates media for putting profits above honesty. This behavior causes me to be skeptical of ALL for-profit news sources. I spend countless hours researching news that is questionable.
I AM YOUR DREAM CUSTOMER. I would gladly pay you to provide reliable evaluations of content. BUT, I DELETED YOUR APP AFTER DOWNLOADING IT BECAUSE YOU WON’t ALLOW ME TO ASSESS YOUR SERVICE WITHOUT SEEING WHAT I’M BUYING) I don’t commit my time or money blindly. (your signup procedure takes my time, more so if I have to cancel in 2 weeks) It’s a shame that an honest company trying to stay in business while providing a valuable service may fail because of a bad business model.
Trust your customers (I have never seen evaluations so bifurcated, only 1s and 5s) your market is already cynical don’t give us a silly reason to avoid you

by Cybercuy

Another fake news fail disguising itself as “non bias fact checkers” in order to silence opposing views of the people funding them. Also deceptive, as they lure you in only to find out NewsGuard is paid. Is your dark money censorship checks not enough that you also have to charge people for this misinformation labeled as fact checking?

by Eyembeajay

I would rather have seen it cost $2.99 to install rather than free then stop you cold and demand a subscription to even open it.
Developers could THEN tell you they’d refund you if you cancel.
Just saying it’s too bad seniors who need it the most probably aren’t in the position to pay for it.

by Fred F...

If you are just looking for an echo chamber and can't handle any opposing points of view, then NewsGuard is definitely for you. If you like to hear more than one side of a story, then stay far away from this app. As NewsGuard name suggests, they will guard you from actual news

by Cwnoyes

I don't think the people that get news from free and unreliable online sources would be willing to seek out NewsGuard and pay $3/month. The money would be better spent towards a subscription to a reliable news source like NYT, WSJ, Apple News , etc.

by The Other Fionan

Very disappointed. I saw nothing indicating in-app payment or additional costs incurred to use.

by Trevor Strom

What makes NewsGuard great is using a proxy filter to label certain sites or "domain's". I personaly consider this a great example using proxys for good intentions and flip's the script..

by BassAce514

Been waiting for their app a long time. It’s great.

by 10056Ducks

I learned about NewsGuard from an article on the Democratic National Committee website about combating disinformation. I don’t normally pay for apps but I checked this out because the DNC recommended it. Otherwise I’d probably never have considered it because I don’t really look at much disinformation online because almost all of my information sources are quite reputable and reliable. But when this app presents you with its assessment of a news site you get as many examples as needed to solidly validate the evaluation of various journalistic practices, information about ownership, investors, management structure, the history of the site, whatever is relevant to how the quantitative ratings were arrived at. Every piece of information is backed up with a link to its source

by Eric E Britt

If you’re complaining that your right wing sources are listed as unreliable, maybe it’s actually your sources that are the problem, not NewsGuard .

by Indread_cold

If you’re not scrutinizing your news sources then you’re just letting any crazy person with an idea infiltrate your life. Best thing possible during a time of misinformation.

by Machseem

This tool is very consistent across all of its ratings and uses multiple verification points across all channels throughout its entire platform. Has so far checked out for me in most aspects. When it is hard to go back to browsing without something you now have, that’s how you especially no it’s useful.

by Vicky Weiss

this app helps me decide if I want to trust a news website. If you hover over the this app icon , you can quickly see why the site is trustworthy (or not). If you want more information, you can click through to a longer-write up that includes details like who owns and operates the website.

It's also really helpful for my kids' homework assignments!

by Demuted

NewsGuard is a good start. A few minor complaints — the theme should follow system-wide dark/light mode options and it would be great if the search would show the rating in-line (such as cnn.com...87.5/100 in the search results) but, overall, very good and useful.