Avast News Companion (beta)

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What is Avast News Companion (beta)?

Avast News Companion (beta) is a Chrome extension that allows users to easily check the accuracy, balance, and biases of news sources. It alerts users about political bias and identifies scientific, satiric, and questionable sources. The extension also analyzes factual reporting and verifies statements against fact-checking databases to alert users about misleading claims and incorrect news. Additionally, it helps users understand their reading habits and make informed decisions about news. Coming soon, users will be able to visualize their reading habits. The extension collects information about user clicks, ratings, and the newspapers they read to provide insights on reading habits. Avast News Companion (beta) is available for Google Chrome™ and other Chromium browsers.

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By: https://www.avast.com

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Users: 96 ▲ 7

Rating: 3.67 (3) ▲ 0.67

Version: 1.3.164 (Last updated: 2022-02-22)

Creation date: 2021-08-29

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
storage
https://*.ff.avast.com/
https://*.svc.avast.com/

Size: 520.19K

Email: br*****@avast.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 65826 ▲ 1262

Other rankings

#463 in News & Weather ▲ 1 #74 in news keyword 31 ▼ 14

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Not available on Edge

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Summary

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Don’t be fooled by fake news. Get Avast News Companion to check your sources for biases and factual reporting.

With Avast News Companion, you can easily and quickly check how accurate and balanced your favorite news sites are. It alerts you when sites have a known political bias, which range from Left to Right, and we'll also tell you about scientific, satiric, and questionable sources. With this extension you’ll be sure to know the truth behind what you read. Avast News Companion uses algorithms that analyze factual reporting, and verify the statements from the articles against fact-checking databases. Based on that you’ll get alerted about misleading claims or incorrect news.

The extension can also identify conspiracies and propaganda, so you know you're reading the truth.

It helps you to:

Get all the info before forming an opinion
Understand your own reading habits
Make informed decisions about news

Coming soon:

User reviews

Amazing. Just tried it out and it works!

Aria_ Gaming, 2024-04-21

No reactions to any kind of online news websites at all, for examples, CBCNews.ca and CNN, please. So then, who could go fix it all-out asap, please?

林 Lin昭辰 Chao-Chen Jack Kenichi YEG, 2022-12-02

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Safety

Risk impact

Avast News Companion (beta) is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Avast News Companion (beta) if you trust the publisher.