NewsGuard's rating shields and labels help users know which news and information websites to trust.
After researching, the credibility of this company is solid, it was founded by established and trusted journalists and continues to be endorsed by them. They use objective journalistic standards to judge the websites and for the most part they do a great job. It is affordably priced and easy to cancel after your free-trial. However, considering the level of influence they have, there is a lot that is left out and they don't seem to be held accountable by anything other than the pride of accredited journalists and the AP (which is hefty at least). This leaves a worrying amount of room for bias or manipulation which will hopefully be remedied, HOWEVER, thus far the ratings are very accurate and well substantiated and anyone saying otherwise is silly and doesn't know how to read... It's not a definitive good or bad, but it's certainly a very useful starting place considering all the fake news to sift through.
If you needed an indication of the reliability of this service, just look at the negative reviews. Note how extreme they are and the content of their complaints. Thanks to this site's transparency and objective criteria, Its pretty obvious these ham-fisted reviews are nothing but unprincipled, futile attempts to diminish Newsguard's brand.
Absolutely necessary in an era where SM algorithms select for outrage and sensationallism, and the manipulations of foreign governments acting in bad faith have degraded the public forum with bots promoting unsourced garbage. False allegations are routinely and successfully disguised as statements of fact, such that 3 in 10 americans still believe the result of the 2020 election was fraudulent. Recently Newsguard's nutrition guide saved me from wasting days parsing BS from Zerohedge.com. Yeah, it's subscription, something like $5/mo but well worth every penny.
Mike Crowe
Internet Archive
https://simpl.fyi
https://demainstream.com
https://our.news/
https://nobias.com/
https://ground.news
Unlocked
erik.w.gibbons
John Navas
https://tosdr.org
https://botsentinel.com/
