44.4% of matchups won
354 matchups
Elo 1458
tracked 2025/05/31 → 2026/09/30
mission: Evaluate media integrity · Media accountability · companies
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing41%
picked as helping wellbeing
254 matchups
52%
picked as hurting wellbeing
100 matchups
On balance people see it as hurting.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2025-08-29Related
Similar organizations
01
FactCheck.org
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59.3% wins · website that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion...
02
Media Rating Council
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47.7% wins · American nonprofit organisation
03
Common Sense Media
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68.3% wins · nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, United States
04
Reuters
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61.5% wins · international news agency
05
Bellingcat
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33.6% wins · investigative open source intelligence group
Known for
- Established in 2015
- Widely cited in studies
- High agreement with datasets
- Used by researchers
- Largest dataset of sources
Based on 354 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/09/30. Full rankings ·
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