Media Bias Fact Check

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Total ratings for Media Bias Fact Check

4.76 (Rating count: 74)

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Pros

An essential tool for checking media bias and providing credible news sources
Easy to use interface
Has a speedy performance, especially on platforms like Facebook

Cons

Technical issues causing the extension to vanish or malfunction
Doesn't provide detailed rating explanations
Issues of the extension leaning towards the left

Most mentioned

Useful in identifying and avoiding biased news sources
The fact-checking capability of the extension
The extension's instability and technical issues

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Recent reviews for Media Bias Fact Check

Recent rating average: 4.50

All time rating average: 4.76

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Date	Author	Comment
2023-11-13	Richard	It pains me to give the extension a mediocre rating because it provides such a critically important tool, but it's strictly for technical reasons. I love its purpose and I fully trust the assessments it displays for news websites, because I've thoroughly vetted the same-named website on which those ratings are based. I find their (openly-published) methodology to be sound, and eventually even became a lifetime subscriber. But the extension failed me too many times, and I finally had to remove it several weeks ago. (I had to reinstall it to post this review.) The problem: I kept noticing that its icon had vanished from the browser. Each time, I went to the area where you manage extensions, and each time saw the message "This extension may have been corrupted," or something very similar. There was always a button to repair the extension, and clicking it always seemed to work.... but then it would happen again days or weeks later, over and over. This all happened on a desktop computer, on the Linux operating system. It happened in the Brave web browser, and I believe also in the Chromium browser. I don't have Chrome, so I can't speak to how well it works on that. I always have a HUGE number of open tabs, so I considered that might be the cause, but I have several other extensions installed which have never needed repairing. I've removed and reinstalled it several times, and have provided feedback about this a few times before posting this rating. I really feel I did my due diligence. Hopefully the problem is fixable, or at least rare. Meanwhile the MediaBiasFactCheck website also recommends a similar, third-party extension which provides the same service. (I won't name it because I don't want it to seem I'm only criticizing this one to promote that one, but you can find it for yourself at https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/appsextensions/ and as of November 2023 it's one of the alternatives shown here in the Chrome web store.)
2023-07-26	Adolfo Grosso	Doesn't work on facebook anymore, doesn't run on chrome or firefox.
2023-03-10	Tangent Man	Media Bias Fact Check is an ESSENTIAL extension/web site to use in a world of misinformation and lies that ruin societies. If only everybody used this. Having used the web for 30 years and being politically aware, I can confirm that the information provided by MBFC is at least 95% correct.
2023-03-10	Eric Roth	This is a tried and true sort to discover and understand the media that you are consuming. I believe in reading all sides of story and understanding where the "news" is coming from. I am a child of Brinkley, Cronkite and Rather. I am a consumer of NPR in my adult life. It still means I am going to check everyone's bias to better understand my own. Be curious...not judgemental! This extension is your resource to better information.
2023-01-20	Sirnir Víkingur	Works really good, Easy 5 🌟
2022-11-06	Kurou Shikai	I generally like this extension but I would rather have the social media bar and the description of why the site earned left-right, and factuality rating it did. Rather than a description of what the left-right-center description means when clicking the icon.
2022-11-05	Jay Andrew	This is accurate. It even has Fox News down as FN (Fake News)😁
2022-06-25	Athena Gibbons	It's helped me avoid ideology-driven "news" sites on both the left and right.
2022-05-21	Jacob Holmes	--UPDATE-- It's working now. It must have been that some server was down or something when I wrote the below. Disregard Not working in Chromium 101.0.4951.54. Extension is loaded with no errors, shows the icon, but every website (Cnn, etc.) shows "Not a rated site". **
2021-12-09	Andrew Ronding	Very useful and intuitive.

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