Newstrition

Nutrition Labels for News.

Newstrition - Your Nutrition Labels for Online News

Newstrition is a Chrome extension that provides 'Nutrition Labels for News', an interactive tool that helps users distinguish junk news from real information. The tool pulls information about the online news publisher, author, and the facts sourced in the article. It also includes an AI rating system, allows users to vote and contribute their own fact sources, and rate news based on several factors. Newstrition is non-partisan and free for non-commercial use, working to combat online misinformation.
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Extension stats

Manifest V2
Users: 1,000+
Rating: 3.56
(9)
Version: 2021.3.5.1 (Last updated: 2021-03-11)
Creation date: 2020-06-23
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • background
  • storage
  • activeTab
  • <all_urls>
  • webRequest
  • webRequestBlocking
  • management
Size: 220.16K
URLs: Website
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge

User reviews

Seems an outdated extension Doesn't seem to work anymore. Not even the FAQ... https://our.news/faq
by Gus Vald, 2023-05-25

Interesting concept, but falls into the partisan pit-trap when it comes to fact checking, and news verification. The extension and the group behind it takes mainstream, typically left leaning or moderate left sources at face value without any further research or sourcing in the manner. Appears to heavily rely on fact checkers like politifact among others, which funnily enough has a history of bunk fact checking according to Zebra Fact Check, which is an independent fact checker that checks the fact checkers. Poor reasonings as to why some sources are "problematic" and the word "problematic" is in itself and issue. Newsguard in this sense is superior and far more accurate, as they do their own research and source from multiple sources.
by Art, 2021-07-23

Love the concept, and worked well standalone - except when it came to searching by topic, which seemed to stump search. Allied allsides.com by comparison returned a search quickly. Perhaps the best way to use the our.news browser app is to use it through allsides.com?
by jason brown, 2020-04-01
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Newstrition requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • 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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We don't have sufficient data to confidently determine the risk likelihood of Newstrition. Use it at your own risk.

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