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Everything you need to write about, cite, or critique Web Jury. Free data, free API, direct contact, and no PR-speak required.
Web Jury is the crowd-sourced version of AllSides — bias and accuracy ratings for thousands of news outlets, journalists, and creators, with trust-weighted aggregation, brigading defenses, and a free public API.
Cleared for direct quotation. Each point is also linked from a longer page on the site if you want more depth.
AllSides covers 600 news outlets with 5 editors. Media Bias / Fact Check is one researcher's ratings. NewsGuard is paywalled. Web Jury aggregates trust-weighted reader reviews across thousands of outlets — distribution-visible, brigading-resistant, free.
Three layers: (1) vote weight scales with reviewer history quality, (2) full vote distribution is publicly visible on every outlet page, (3) temporal smoothing caps daily public-score shifts at ~5 points. No single coordinated raid moves the needle materially.
400+ outlets seeded at launch across US national, US local, international English-language, fact-checkers, online-native, newsletter-first, plus per-outlet bias pages targeting "{outlet} bias" search queries.
Most bias tools are editorial. Web Jury is infrastructure for a public scoreboard. We don't decide what's true; we show what readers across the political spectrum think about a source over time — and we show the full distribution, not just the median.
We publish side-by-side comparisons at /vs-allsides, /vs-media-bias-fact-check, /vs-newsguard, and /vs-ground-news. Where they're better than us, we say so.
“AllSides has rated 600 outlets in 10 years. We rated 400 at launch and the count grows with every new entity any reader pastes in.”
— Web Jury Founding Team
“Crowd-sourced ratings have one obvious failure mode: brigading. Our methodology assumes brigading is real and defends against it explicitly. We don't pretend the crowd is unbiased; we show you the distribution and let you judge.”
— Methodology Page
“Web Jury isn't a fact-checker. It's a credibility prior. When you read a story from CNN or Fox News, our score doesn't tell you whether that story is right — it tells you what {N} readers across the spectrum think about the source's track record.”
— About Page
Trust, bias, and accuracy scores for 9 well-known outlets. Cleared for use in stories. Full live data at web-jury.com or via the free API.
| Outlet | Trust score | Bias | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reuters | 88/100 | Center | 95% |
| BBC News | 82/100 | Center | 90% |
| NYT (news desk) | 72/100 | Lean Left | 83% |
| CNN | 64/100 | Left | 70% |
| Fox News | 48/100 | Right | 58% |
| MSNBC | 47/100 | Left | 58% |
| Daily Mail | 43/100 | Right | 52% |
| Breitbart | 32/100 | Far Right | 38% |
| Occupy Democrats | 28/100 | Far Left | 34% |
We respond to press inquiries within 24 hours. Direct quotes, data verification, source for stories — happy to help.
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