Ground News
The most recommended of 9 news aggregators
Recommended for a curated feed that shows many sides of a story; the common caveat is that many linked articles require separate subscriptions.
Recommended for a curated feed that shows many sides of a story; the common caveat is that many linked articles require separate subscriptions.
41 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 18
- criticize it
- 23
- approval share
- 44%
Recommended in 10 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 18 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 10 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong overall news aggregator
“probably the best aggregator right now”
Comment from 1 Aug 2026 in “Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now” “We need more things like Ground news.”
Comment from 8 Sep 2026 in “Making Teenagers Read Newspapers. A Nationwide Experiment in French High Schools” “ground news is doing good work”
Comment from 7 Nov 2025 in “Majority of teens hold negative views of news media, says report” - Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread”
Curated feed and summaries
“I think news apps like Groundnews can provide a summary news service so that people aren't afraid of missing things.”
Comment from 26 Jun 2026 in “Reading the news is the new smoking” “I like the curated feed. And the tool that takes emotional language out of an event reported on by multiple parties”
Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Measuring political bias in Claude” “It solved all my news problems and fills all my news needs.”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Micropayments as a reality check for news sites” Shows all sides of stories
“I find the premise of projects like Ground News -- trying to de-bias media -- really compelling.”
Comment from 2 Dec 2025 in “Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy” “They are decent at making sure all sides of a story are represented in their feed.”
Comment from 16 Oct 2026 in “Iran’s precision strikes picked apart Gulf infrastructure, blunting US war plans” Clear, neutral picture of events
“Groundnews, ballotpedia, govtrack.us, directly following politicians social media... you get a very clear picture of what's going on.”
Comment from 3 Jun 2026 in “U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, but It's Not at the Ballot Box” “I like the curated feed. And the tool that takes emotional language out of an event reported on by multiple parties”
Comment from 20 Nov 2025 in “Measuring political bias in Claude”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Links go to paywalled articles
“It also doesn't deliver the value it says on the tin, since you can't actually read the articles it links to unless you have subscriptions on those sites.”
Comment from 27 Aug 2026 in “Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children” “you can't share a link without them adding their own paywall to it, even if it's a free article”
Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region” “It just shows you links to news sites that you need to be separately subscribed to”
Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier” - Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier”
Ads and high pricing
“100% of them have turned out to be either scams or just very overpriced. Even ones that sounded reasonable, like Ground News”
Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier” “Ground News charges $9.99/mo for the bias-comparison features”
Comment from 2 May 2026 in “WeSearch” “their ads are everywhere, but it is a somewhat good product”
Comment from 25 May 2026 in “Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore” - Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Micropayments as a reality check for news sites”
Categories and labels seen as biased
“the problem with Ground News is that they buy into the same categorization scheme of the news that you do”
Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier” “Fact-checkers and whatever you call people that gauge political biases aren't impartial sources of information.”
Comment from 19 Feb 2026 in “Micropayments as a reality check for news sites” “overly simplistic black and white labels to put highly nuanced matters into neat boxes”
Comment from 7 Dec 2025 in “'The time has come to declare war on AI'” False equivalence between sides
“It truly is a vehicle for enabling the worst aspects of bothsides-ism and legitimizing poor journalism through false equivalence.”
Comment from 25 Aug 2026 in “Is Ground News a Psy-Op? (2026)” “the implicit assumption is that left & right are equally truthful & fact based, which is not the case”
Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread” “They help launder this idea that every issue has two reasonable sides.”
Comment from 5 Sep 2026 in “Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread”
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The four most recommended other news aggregators, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ground NewsThis page | 18 | 23 | 44% | 10 | — | — |
| Digg | 17 | 43 | 28% | 11 | — | — |
| Kagi News | 14 | 4 | 78% | 8 | — | Approved |
| techposts.eu | 11 | 4 | 73% | 2 | — | — |
| Brutalist Report | 10 | 1 | 91% | 6 | — | Approved |
What people said
40 of the 45 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Ground news was started by the right wing to shift the Overton window rightward.”
“the problem with Ground News is that they buy into the same categorization scheme of the news that you do”
“it doesn't give you anything, just links you to paywalled articles”
“It just shows you links to news sites that you need to be separately subscribed to”
“how to interpret a bunch of news without actually reading any of it”
“100% of them have turned out to be either scams or just very overpriced. Even ones that sounded reasonable, like Ground News”
“Or is it a ploy from mostly republican-connected investors to legitamize less trustworthy right wing news sources?”
“They are decent at making sure all sides of a story are represented in their feed.”
“We need more things like Ground news.”
“As someone with a very varied media diet I don't really find them to be distortive”
“the implicit assumption is that left & right are equally truthful & fact based, which is not the case”
“I enjoy Ground News a lot.”
“They help launder this idea that every issue has two reasonable sides.”
“It also doesn't deliver the value it says on the tin, since you can't actually read the articles it links to unless you have subscriptions on those sites.”
“It truly is a vehicle for enabling the worst aspects of bothsides-ism and legitimizing poor journalism through false equivalence.”
“Ground news is biased, excellent video about it here”
“Ground News makes obvious to a hilarious degree”
“probably the best aggregator right now”
“I don't think that will work for what I'm looking for”
“Their team is responsive to inquiries and feature requests.”
“I subscribe aspirationally and never actually make time to consume the content”
“you can't share a link without them adding their own paywall to it, even if it's a free article”
“I don't like the idea of someone deciding what the bias is for me.”
“the way Ground News is framed to be a little offputting”
“I think news apps like Groundnews can provide a summary news service so that people aren't afraid of missing things.”
“Groundnews, ballotpedia, govtrack.us, directly following politicians social media... you get a very clear picture of what's going on.”
“their ads are everywhere, but it is a somewhat good product”
“Ground News charges $9.99/mo for the bias-comparison features”
“I use GroundNews to filter out sites that have paywalls”
“It's almost certainly going to get enshittified eventually”
“Fact-checkers and whatever you call people that gauge political biases aren't impartial sources of information.”
“It solved all my news problems and fills all my news needs.”
“the UX is just so atrocious and completely unusable”
“the signal to noise ratio was so, so unfavorable between the UI clutter”
“Ground News's approach is worth modeling because it treats authenticity not as a binary detection problem”
“overly simplistic black and white labels to put highly nuanced matters into neat boxes”
“I find the premise of projects like Ground News -- trying to de-bias media -- really compelling.”
“I like the curated feed. And the tool that takes emotional language out of an event reported on by multiple parties”
“the sites stupid polarity meters should be optional”
“ground news is doing good work”
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