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Each source counts by its number of reviews. Only reviews written by people are scored.

Rating, volume, share of the score, six-month trend and fake-review risk for each source
Source	Rating	Reviews	Weight	6-mo	Fake risk
Trustpilot Imported Trustpilot reviews	4.0	43	100%		● Low

4.0 / 5 overall

43 reviews across 1 scored source

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Reputation trend

Monthly average rating from reviews written by people · latest review Jul 2025.

Last 3 months: 5.0
12-month avg: 5.0
All-time: 4.0
Category avg: 3.8

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How it compares

Same method for every company: overall rating, legitimacy checks, the average rating of reviews mentioning each area and the 6-month trend · News & Media.

Overall rating and review count for this company and similar companies
Company	Overall	Legit	Trend	Reviews
Double Down NewsThis company	4.0 out of 5 (good)	100 out of 100	—	43
Newsmax	2.2 out of 5 (poor)	100 out of 100	+24%	211
auf1.tv	4.0 out of 5 (good)	100 out of 100	−20%	100
SWD Media	4.9 out of 5 (good)	100 out of 100	—	61
Mediapart	2.3 out of 5 (poor)	100 out of 100	—	31

Bottom line: Double Down News is #3 of 5 on overall rating in this group.

Winkler

1 review

Jul 8, 2025

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ONE OF THE MOST TRUTHFUL MEDIA!!!!

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Christina Fletcher

1 review

Jun 23, 2025

Featured

Excellent

Excellent. The conversation between Professor Avi Schlaim and Ghada Kami ("The Hidden History of Israel") is wonderful and not to be missed.

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customer

1 review

Feb 12, 2025

Featured

A breath of fresh air .

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Linda Thomson

1 review

Nov 10, 2024

Featured

Excellent Double Down News

In my opinion Double Down News gives excellent honest well presented podcasts, analysis and news. Often on issues that are not necessarily receiving as much exposure as they should.

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customer

1 review

Jul 25, 2024

Double Down review of Palestinian situation

Double Down review of current Palestinian situation makes too much sense to be ignored.

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Pam Nitti

1 review

Jul 6, 2024

Excellent alternative views and…

Excellent alternative views and positions to mainstream Biilionaire owned CNN, Fox BBC Sky etc....always get more sides to the story as the truth is usually hidden and or manipulated.

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Tracey Laidlaw

1 review

Jun 20, 2024

Informative

Informative, well referenced and clear, common sense presentation of what is really going on....good exposures of political hypocrisy and lies

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Marc

1 review

Apr 28, 2024

Great interesting content but not enough openness with its subscribers and audience.

I subscribed to DDN for a bit more than a year, until I asked them for their plan to expand their channel out of genuine interest. I had also noticed a turn out rate of 4-5 videos a month which seemed to be low considering the income they were getting from their 9000+ paid subscribers (potentially £30k a month). I asked and searched for account, plans etc and got no response and only found some info on company house. This is a bit ironic from a company that criticises the opacity of the mainstream media. I fund other independent media but all are opened about their finances and development plans. At the time I left (2021) DDN had enough subscribers to potentially employ a small team staff yet only had one producing mainly opinion pieces from single individuals, thus requiring little investment compared to more investigative journalism. Since then little has changed. Great interesting content but not enough openness with its subscribers and audience.

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Thomas

1 review

Apr 27, 2024

Genuine point of view

Nice to get the real picture. I enjoy the genuity of Roger Waters.

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R.P. Scales

1 review

Jan 22, 2024

Passionate delivery

Passionate delivery, and heart is in the right place, but short on in-depth analysis, particularly on matters of international relations. I don't trust mainstream media, so alternative journalism sources should be be making three times the effort if they are going to present reliable, well-documented reports and make them stick.

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Houssem Ben Lazreg

1 review

Oct 30, 2023

Excellent and informed coverage

Excellent and informed coverage. Highly recommended!

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Koko

1 review

Oct 28, 2023

trustworthy and accurate

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Thor

1 review

Oct 18, 2023

A better way to tell a story!

I'm simply for listening to the news from as many resources as possible. Thumps up for DDN for providing alternative views!

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John Welsh

1 review

Jun 11, 2023

Sad to leave DDN News

I've followed DD News on Facebook for a while and have always been interested in alternative positions to those taken by mainstream media. I sometimes sympathise and sometimes not, but am interested to hear what others say. Unfortunately I have found it to be a group with it's downsides. It is not a debating chamber, abuse goes unchallenged, and although I would consider myself leftist, any criticism of Jeremy Corbyn is taboo. It seems you either accept a certain narrative or you will be labelled scum. It happens all the time so I have left the group.

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Stephen Priest

1 review

Jan 16, 2023

I have been looking out for some…

I have been looking out for some impartial news offerings and came across DDNews scrolling down from a Facebook (which i despise and don't really use) notification. I went through a number of films and articles and like some previous reviewers became more disenchanted by the headlines. On google, DDNEWs is noted as left wing (not my usual political position) but I thought let's give it a go. Interested in the people offering their journalism and the films and their content but cannot help feeling that with the headlines along with the 'reasonableness' of the filming (that doesn't match the headlies (accidently typed, deliberately left in). I am an arch cynic and have not been reading the mainstream press and listening media and I feel this is just the other side of the fence and I'm being spun. Someone please provide us with some real independent journalism! Proven sources and bone fide accreditation, please.

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Just Another Customer

1 review

Oct 13, 2022

I'm not entirely sure about this site…

I'm not entirely sure about this site as a valid source for information and opinion. I think I may have a problem with standards in general. I appreciate that each of the journalists seems free to use their own style of presentation, but some of the tactics employed in delivery has me questioning the validity of content... as does some of the choices made with the headlining. The headline stating "Jeremy Corbyn Demolishes The Establishment" is a typical example. Anyone who has been on Youtube for five minutes will understand the use of terms like 'Demolishes, Terrifying, Destroys' are all inflammatory terms used to stir up emotion, exaggerate and entice people into viewing the topic, ie clickbate. That the site employs the use such terms in their headlines, on their own website is a touch unsettling. That is, aside from the fact that Jeremy Corbyn comes with his own set of questionable behaviour, and seeming to be 'Lorded' here as some sort of intellectual guru on the behaviour of the establishment raised some considerable alarm bells of their own. I think Articles like "Former British Soldier EXPOSES the monarchy" which really made me think, are undone with such headlines. It taints them with a sense of parody and undermines the power of the message they carry by labelling them as some sort of revenue seeking information provider. The "God Help Us" article on Liz Truss was a kaleidoscope of exaggerated laughing, odd mannerisms, video inserts and strange undermining tactics that do little to add credence to it. It is a detrimental way to present serious issues IMO. Adding to the hoard of already illegitimate sources of information that present in this questionable manner is... odd, and I can't see why anyone intent on serious information dissemination would do so, at least to this level of extremity. I think If the substance of an article is sufficiently compelling, (and actually, in this case I think it is) then requirement for such overstated delivery is superfluous. I'm not saying that news delivery has to mimic the stoicism of the BBC, but I do think this 'over the top' presentation style does the channel a disservice. Well, that is my two cents. I've been honest (as I try to be) with my impressions, which I hope will help you come to conclusions of your own without having to invest as much time as I do in drawing a accurate conclusion. I'll keep visiting the site for a bit and see how things develop, but I already have my reservations. Edit: I've been visiting the sight for a few weeks now and have come to the conclusion its not a legitimate news site at all. There have certainly been no updates for the past week, maybe longer. The leading article is at least two weeks old. There's not even any coverage on the Liz Truss' resignation and that was four days ago, so that about says it all.

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Sarfraz-ul Haque

1 review

Mar 19, 2022

True honest reporting on DDN.

True, honest reporting by decent Journalists and Reporters on DDN ...versus... the biased mainstream media channels owned by personal agenda driven billionaires or corrupted political agenda Western Governments.

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james bingham

1 review

Oct 22, 2021

Without publications like Double Down…

Without publications like Double Down the best we´d have would be the smug middle class, right wing Guardian.

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Husam Ates

1 review

Sep 5, 2021

a great place to be in

one of the few places you can feel the breath of free speech and the power of sincerity.

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Kate Mason

1 review

Aug 25, 2021

Just what I've been needing

Just what I've been needing. I've given up on the once much-loved BBC which has fallen about as low as it can - little more than a mouthpiece now for Conservative Central Office and the Johnson Government and purveying as "entertainment" mostly mindless quiz shows and celebrity rubbish; also given up on the other mainstream TV channels in the UK and most certainly the extremely biased British press, owned by right-wing billionaires such as Murdoch and Dacre. So Double Down News is a welcome and refreshing change for independent news and investigative journalism. I paid for the annual subscription plan on Patreon and money well spent as far as I'm concerned. I for one and completely in tune with its so-called left-wing bias, as I am one of the millions of UK voters who feel disenfranchised by the current political Establishment of corrupt Tories and wannabe Tories like Starmer. And yes, I am a Corbyn supporter and proud to be one.

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Month	Average	Reviews
Nov 24	5.0	1
Dec 24	—	0
Jan 25	—	0
Feb 25	5.0	1
Mar 25	—	0
Apr 25	—	0
May 25	—	0
Jun 25	5.0	1
Jul 25	5.0	1

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