Check any account before you trust it.
Community-audited trust, accuracy and bias scores for the accounts in your feed — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X and the newsroom.
Trending across platforms
What people are watching, reading and sharing — and where the jury stands.
Who people trust, topic by topic
The highest-rated accounts in every corner of your feed, ranked once 20 jurors have rated them.
The verdict, wherever you scroll
A quiet badge in your browser shows the score of the account behind whatever you’re watching or reading — on YouTube, X, Reddit and news sites.
Insights from the record
Data-driven reads on bias, methodology and the accounts people ask about most.
Questions, answered
Quick answers here. The full detail lives on the methodology page.
What is Internet Standing?
Internet Standing is a crowd-sourced public record of the accounts in your feed — channels, creators, X accounts and news outlets — rated by jurors for trust, bias and accuracy. AllSides has editors rate about 600 outlets; here anyone can open a case, and defenses against brigading are built into the math.
How does Internet Standing rate media bias?
Every rating includes a bias vote on a five-point scale, from Far Left to Far Right. Each vote is weighted by the juror’s track record, and the published position is the weighted median of those votes, not the average, so a burst of extreme votes cannot drag it to one end. Because a crowd can land between two points, the result is shown on a seven-step scale, and account pages show the spread of votes behind it.
How is Internet Standing different from AllSides?
AllSides relies on a small team of editors and has rated about 600 outlets in ten years. Internet Standing aggregates votes from its jurors instead, covers creators as well as outlets, and has a free public API. That trades some precision for coverage, which is why the defenses matter: trust-weighted votes, a weighted median for bias, no score until an account has 20 ratings, and the full vote distribution in public.
Is Internet Standing free?
Yes. Looking up accounts, rating them and using the public API at standard rate limits are free, and while the site is in beta every feature is free. Paid plans for heavier API use and for creators are planned, but nothing is for sale yet.
How do you prevent vote brigading?
Several layers. Votes are weighted by each juror’s track record, so new and low-trust accounts count for less, and anonymous votes count for less still. The bias position is a weighted median, which a minority of extreme votes cannot move. Nothing is published until an account has 20 ratings. And scores are smoothed over time: new ratings wait 36 hours before they can move a published score, and anonymous votes cast on any one day can make up at most a quarter of an account’s weight. A lasting shift needs a lasting crowd, not a raid.
Can outlets respond to their rating?
Yes. The outlet or creator behind an account can claim its page by proving they run it: a post from the account, a link in its bio, or an email address at its domain. A person on the team reviews every claim, and once it is approved the owner can reply to reviews on the page.
Still curious? Read the methodology or write to the team.