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NewsGuard: News Reliability Ratings Service

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Relevant to AI safety discussions around information quality, training data curation, and misinformation; NewsGuard ratings could help filter low-quality sources when building AI training datasets or evaluating AI-generated content.

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Summary

NewsGuard provides credibility and reliability ratings for news and information websites, assigning nutrition-label-style scores based on journalistic standards. It aims to combat misinformation by giving users, platforms, and advertisers transparent assessments of news sources. The service is used by media organizations, ad-tech companies, and educational institutions.

Key Points

  • Rates thousands of news websites on nine journalistic criteria including transparency, accuracy, and corrections policies
  • Provides 'nutrition labels' for news sources to help users quickly assess credibility of information outlets
  • Used by advertisers to avoid funding misinformation sites through programmatic ad placement
  • Integrates with browsers, social platforms, and search tools to surface reliability ratings at point of consumption
  • Relevant to AI safety as LLMs trained on or citing unreliable sources may propagate misinformation

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 News Reliability Ratings

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 Reliability ratings for news outlets based on nonpartisan journalistic criteria 

 NewsGuard deploys a team of expert journalists to rate and review the reliability of news sources across the open web, social media, and content platforms based on a set of apolitical criteria of journalistic practice . 

 Accessible via web dashboard, API or cloud datastream, our ratings have become the trusted source for understanding media reliability for research institutions , technology platforms , news aggregators , artificial intelligence providers, advertising companies , and news consumers worldwide. 

 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Coverage of 35K+ news sources worldwide 

 NewsGuard’s ratings cover more than 35,000 online sources  across the web, social media and content platforms, TV and CTV networks , and podcasting platforms . The ratings cover publishers accounting for 95%+ of online engagement with news. 

 30+ data points about each rated news source 

 Each rated publisher receives a rating on each of NewsGuard’s criteria, a total reliability score of 0-100, an overall rating level, and more than 30 descriptive metadata fields with data about the site’s ownership, content, and operations. 

 Continuous updates to ensure accuracy 

 Ratings are refreshed regularly to ensure they remain accurate and up to date. NewsGuard’s team tracks changes in publishers’ content, ownership, domain-hopping, or other factors that could impact a publisher’s score — and monitors for new publishers to rate on a continuous basis.  

 Backed by detailed ‘Nutrition Label’ reports 

 The evidence supporting each rating is specified in a detailed report produced by NewsGuard’s analysts called a “Nutrition Label,” including specific examples of content causing a publisher to fail any of the rating criteria. Before publishing, NewsGuard’s analysts contact publishers, seek comment, and give them an opportunity to resolve issues or oversights. 

 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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