Wiki healthnut news professional#

The index does not factor in MBFC’s “mixed” factual rating nor their “Questionable Sources” or “Conspiracy-Pseudoscience” designations. It justifies each rating with public links to reliable sources - the same transparency expected of any news outlet.It stays current, continually rating new sites and reconsidering past ratings.

It is a team of reviewers (not just one person’s opinion).

Wiki healthnut news professional#

The goal is to give researchers an accurate list of active, unreliable news sources, as vetted by a professional news/info-site reviewer. The Iffy index lists sites with a low (or very low) MBFC Factual Reporting level. You can use their online tool to “assesses the credibility of your information source,” including web, Twitter, and Facebook pages. MisinfoMe’s methodology is well-documented. The site’s name in the far-right column links to search results with fact-checks of that site’s articles.Īs of June 2021, the Iffy Index lists individual domain’s credibility rating (between -1 and 1), linked to a detailed report on the site. The “W” links to its Wikipedia article (if one exists). Year online from Alexa and DomainBigData. Site Rank is from Amazon/Alexa Website Traffic Statistics. The links in the MBFC factual column go to the site’s MBFC review. Iffy Index of Unreliable Sources (Version 1.5.14, | Methodology | Corrections) Loading table… Methodology Where does the Iffy index link? The Iffy index includes only sites with low MBFC Factual Reporting levels, which “means the source rarely uses credible sources and is simply not trustworthy for reliable information.” Peer-reviewed studies, health/media guides, and mis/disinfo tools all use the Iffy Index.