FAQ

Web Jury is a crowd-sourced platform for reviewing, rating, and assessing the trustworthiness of any content, creator, or organization on the internet. Users contribute trust scores, political bias ratings, and accuracy metrics to create a transparent accountability layer for the web.

Trust scores are calculated as a weighted average of community reviews on a 1-5 star scale. Reviews from higher-trust, verified users carry more weight, and recent reviews count more via time decay. A minimum of 5 reviews is required before a score is publicly displayed.

Yes! Web Jury offers a free tier that includes 10 reviews per day, basic search, browser extension, mobile app, community tags, and entity following. Paid plans (Pro and Creator) unlock additional features like unlimited reviews, advanced search, and API access.

Web Jury works with any URL on the internet. We have dedicated support for YouTube, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, news sites, and more. You can also review creators, journalists, politicians, news channels, and organizations.

Unlike traditional fact-checkers that rely on editorial teams, Web Jury uses crowd-sourced reviews with algorithmic anti-manipulation protections. We measure political bias on a 7-point spectrum and information accuracy as a percentage, making assessments quantitative rather than subjective editorial opinions.

Paste any URL into Web Jury or use the browser extension. You can then write a detailed review with a star rating (1-5), political bias vote (7-point spectrum), accuracy vote, and optional crowd tags. Your review is published publicly and contributes to the entity's aggregate scores.

The bias spectrum is a 7-point scale: Far Left, Left, Center-Left, Center, Center-Right, Right, Far Right. It uses a weighted median calculation that is resistant to vote brigading. Confidence levels are based on vote count: Hidden (<20), Low (20-99), Moderate (100-499), High (500+).

Accuracy voting lets you rate how factually accurate a piece of content is on a 1-5 scale. These votes are normalized to a 0-100% percentage. Labels range from Unreliable (0-30%) to Highly Accurate (86-100%).

Yes. You can edit your review at any time from your profile or the entity page. You can also delete reviews you've written. Note that deleted reviews are removed from aggregate score calculations.

Crowd tags are community-submitted labels that describe an entity (e.g., "clickbait", "well-researched", "satire"). Tags reach visibility thresholds through democratic voting — they only appear publicly once enough users have applied them.

We use multiple layers of protection: AI-powered spam and toxicity filtering, rate limiting (20 reviews/day), review spike detection, coordinated voting detection, trust score weighting, and duplicate content detection. No AI-generated reviews are allowed.

Anti-brigading refers to our algorithmic protections against coordinated manipulation. We use weighted median calculations for bias votes (instead of averages), detect sudden spikes in review activity, and identify coordinated voting patterns to prevent organized groups from skewing scores.

The trust score is a weighted average where reviews from higher-trust users carry more weight. Factors include the reviewer's account age, review history, community standing, and whether they are verified. Recent reviews receive more weight through time decay.

Yes. Verified creators with a Creator plan can respond publicly to reviews on their entity pages. This enables constructive dialogue while maintaining transparency. Creator responses are clearly labeled.

Click the flag icon on any review to report it. Reports are reviewed by our moderation team. You can report reviews for spam, harassment, misinformation, or other violations of our community guidelines.

You can sign up with an email address and password, or use Google Sign-In. Visit the signup page to get started. Creating an account is free and takes less than a minute.

We offer three tiers: Free ($0/mo with 10 reviews/day), Pro ($4.99/mo with unlimited reviews and advanced features), and Creator ($9.99/mo with creator dashboard, analytics, and verification). All paid plans include a 14-day free trial.

Go to Settings > Billing > Manage Subscription and click "Cancel Plan". Your access continues until the end of your current billing period. You can resubscribe at any time.

Yes. Pro and Creator users can export their reviews, ratings, and lists as CSV or JSON from Settings > Data > Export. Free users can request a data export by contacting support.

Go to Settings > Account > Delete Account. This permanently removes your profile and personal data. Note that your reviews may remain in anonymized form to maintain the integrity of aggregate scores, as described in our Privacy Policy.

AllSides has rated about 600 news outlets through a 5-editor blind review process over 10 years. Web Jury aggregates trust-weighted crowd votes across thousands of outlets, with vote distributions publicly visible and brigading defenses documented. Different precision-vs-coverage trade-off — both have a place. Full side-by-side at web-jury.com/vs-allsides.

MBFC covers about 5,000 outlets through one researcher's assessment. The scale is impressive but the single-rater methodology means two outlets that look identical can get different ratings based on who reviewed them. Web Jury's crowd-aggregation removes the single-rater dependency, while preserving methodology rigor through trust-weighting and distribution visibility.

NewsGuard is the most rigorous editor-led tool in the category — trained journalists evaluate outlets against a 9-criteria checklist. The trade-off: it costs $4.99+/month for individual readers and has no public API for non-enterprise customers. Web Jury is free for readers, with a free API.

Yes. Where the two tools agree on an outlet's bias, your confidence should be highest. Where they disagree, that's where to dig deeper. We recommend a 3-tool stack: Web Jury for the per-outlet score with distribution, AllSides for cross-referencing US national outlets, Ground News for per-story coverage breakdown.

Every score on Web Jury is computed from reviews submitted by users like you. We do not import ratings from other databases or pay raters. Reviewer trust weight scales with each reviewer's history of contribution quality (cross-spectrum participation, helpful votes received, account longevity).

Yes. Every outlet page shows the full vote distribution histogram (not just the median score). The methodology page documents the trust-weighting formula and brigading defenses. The public API returns raw scores. We publish honest comparisons against AllSides + MBFC + NewsGuard + Ground News so you can triangulate independently.

You probably read it more carefully than the average reviewer who voted it down. Two responses worth trying: (1) write your own review with evidence URLs to push the score back, (2) read the existing low-trust reviews to understand the complaints — your favorite outlet may have a genuine blind spot. Single-outlet trust is often a confirmation-bias signal more than a journalistic verdict.

Yes. If you represent an outlet, journalist, or creator, go to web-jury.com/claim. Verify ownership via email at a verified domain, social account proof, or DNS TXT record. Once claimed: publish a response that appears alongside your score, see review analytics, flag policy-violating reviews. Free.

Yes — free at reasonable rate limits, with paid tiers for higher volume. Returns bias, accuracy, trust score, review distribution, and full review data per outlet. Documentation at web-jury.com/developers. Researchers + journalists + fact-checking workflows are the primary users.

The Web Jury browser extension is available for Chrome (and Chromium-based browsers like Edge, Brave, and Arc). Visit the Chrome Web Store and search for "Web Jury" or click the install link on our homepage. The extension shows trust scores directly on web pages as you browse.

Yes. Web Jury has native mobile apps for iOS and Android built with Expo/React Native. You can browse reviews, submit ratings, and manage your account on the go. Download from the App Store or Google Play.

The web app supports limited offline functionality through our Progressive Web App (PWA) features — you can view cached pages. However, submitting reviews, voting, and searching require an internet connection.