Media Bias Fact Check

Name: Media Bias Fact Check
Rating: 4.69620253164557 (79 reviews)
Author: Mike Crowe

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Stay informed and avoid misleading content with the Media Bias Fact Check Chrome extension. It provides comprehensive media bias and fact-check ratings for over 3,000 media sources directly within your Facebook feed, Twitter timeline, and various news websites. This tool helps you identify biased or fake news sources as you browse, empowering you to make better-informed decisions.

Featuring a new collapsible news function, you can customize your Facebook news feed by collapsing categories of news that you find stressful or overwhelming, reducing exposure to extreme or biased viewpoints. Updated for the latest Facebook layout, this extension continues to grow its database daily, offering reliable insights into the media landscape and helping to combat misinformation effectively.

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By:

Mike Crowe

Users:

8,000 -1,000

Rating:

4.70

(79)

Version:

4.0.2 Last updated: 2024-02-24

Creation date:

2019-11-21

Risk:

Permissions:

storage
alarms
tabs

Host permissions:

*://facebook.com/*
*://*.facebook.com/*
*://twitter.com/*
*://*.twitter.com/*

Size:

903.00KB

Email:

dr*****@gmail.com

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 10,308 ▼ 323

Other rankings

#405 in Social Networking ▼ 1 #4 in fact keyword 10 ▼ 1 #11 in media keyword 26 ▲ 1

User reviews

The Media Bias Fact Check Chrome extension is widely regarded as a trustworthy and valuable tool for quickly assessing the ideological bias and factual reporting standards of news sources. Users appreciate its ease of use and reliability, making it a key resource for informed news consumption and fact-checking. However, recurring technical stability issues and concerns about perceived left-leaning bias are noted. Some wish for more granular features and better compatibility on various platforms. Overall, it remains highly recommended despite its imperfections.

Pros

Helps identify ideological bias of news sources quickly and easily.
Trusted and reliable source for media bias and factuality ratings by many users, including professionals.
User-friendly and intuitive interface with convenient toolbar icon and direct links to source details.
Useful for fact-checking and avoiding highly biased or misinformation-prone news sites.
Perceived as an essential tool for understanding media bias and promoting informed news consumption.

Cons

Extension sometimes fails technically, such as icons disappearing or showing corrupted extension errors requiring repairs.
Some users perceive a left-leaning bias in the ratings, particularly in labeling certain outlets (e.g., Fox News) as questionable or fake news rather than simply as right-wing.
Does not work consistently on some browsers or platforms (e.g., Facebook, Firefox, Chromium) as noted by some users.
Limited to rating the overall website and not individual articles, which some users wish were more detailed.
Lacks some desired features noted by users, such as showing social media share bar or detailed explanation of ratings within the extension.

Recent reviews

Trustworthy and free.

Ra*****, 2024-11-29

This extension makes Media Bias/Fact Check easier to use by showing the ideological bias as the extension icon in the toolbar and providing a direct link to the page about the news source. If the site is not rated by Media Bias/Fact Check, that's also immediately apparent since the icon does not change.

Bl*****, 2024-11-19

As a retired editor, investigative journalist, technical writer, I rely on Media Bias Fact Check as my primary go to for news-source analysis. I find MB to be accurate and reliable. I also publish this in-depth fact checking compendium: https://cfitampabay.org/a-compendium-offact-finding-sites/

Ri*****, 2024-09-11

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Media Bias Fact Check requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

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Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Media Bias Fact Check has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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