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.

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.