Type of site | Factchecking |
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Founded | 2016 |
Owner | Richard Zack |
Founder(s) | Richard Zack, Neta Iser |
Services | Crowdsourced Factchecking, Nutrition Labels for News, Newstrition |
URL | https://our.news/ |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 2017 |
Current status | Inactive |
Our.News was afact-checking platform that provided "nutritional labels" combining automated and user-assigned scores to rate the reliability of news articles.[1]
The platform was available both as abrowser extension forGoogle Chrome andFirefox, and a mobile app foriOS. The Labels were aimed to combat online misinformation,[2] providing a condensed breakdown of the background ingredients and information that make up any news article. This included info about the publisher, author, editor, third-party fact checks, article sources, AI article classifications, and public opinion ratings.[3][4][5]
The company's "Nutrition Labels for News" products were also branded as Newstrition.[6][7]
Richard Zack was the founder of the company[8] and served as chief executive officer.[8] Neta Iser was a Co-founder and held the position of Chief Data Scientist, and Jared McKiernan served as editor.
Since July 20, 2023, the website is inactive.
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