Microsoft Teams with Establishment ‘NewsGuard’ to Create News Blacklist – IOTW Report

Microsoft Teams with Establishment ‘NewsGuard’ to Create News Blacklist

Breitbart Tech:  Without consulting with its users, Microsoft has installed an establishment media browser extension, purportedly designed to rate the accuracy of news websites, as a default extension on mobile versions of its Edge browser. In practice, it creates a news blacklist by warning users away from sites including Breitbart News, The Drudge Report, and the Daily Mail.

The browser extension, called “Newsguard,” presents users with a red warning label if they navigate to a website that it judges to be unreliable. A “green” rating is given to websites that NewsGuard considers trustworthy.

A number of pro-Trump websites, including Breitbart News, are given a “red” rating by the extension.

The website of the conservative-leaning British newspaper The Daily Mail, which has the third-highest circulation in the U.K., is also given a “red” rating. Newsguard says the site “fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability.”

WikiLeaks, which has never had to retract a story due to false or misleading information, is also given a “red” rating.

Among the websites given a “green” rating is BuzzFeed, which was recently humiliated for publishing alleged details about the ongoing Mueller investigation that were contradicted by the speial prosecutor himself. BuzzFeed did not retract the story, and even led with it on its frontpage … after Mueller contradicted it.

But in Newsguard’s view, BuzzFeed “regularly corrects or clarifies errors.” more

17 Comments on Microsoft Teams with Establishment ‘NewsGuard’ to Create News Blacklist

  1. more & more like Chinese ‘social rating’ every damn day
    won’t be long before we’ll all have no alternative other than to conform or go dark-net

    … & the gubmint won’t do a damn thing to stop this … the tech companies already own all the demomarxists & half the repugnicans

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  2. Do you really think the Democrats love net neutrality to keep the Internet truly open equally for all?
    Fat chance.
    – It’s another tool they’ll use to control access to the Internet.
    – A legal tool, with the full force of the government and a cadre of lawyers to enforce their rules

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  3. Speaking of AOL. I tried to close an email account about a year and a half ago and it would not let me. It took me a few hours of searching to figure out what link I was supposed to click on, and then when I did, it gave me some excuses about how I didn’t have permission to close my own fucking email account. Believe that shit? So I scrubbed out the account like a dirty pot, changed the name and the password to something insane and walked away.

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