Microsoft Fights Fake News With NewsGuard Integration in Its Mobile Edge Browser (pcworld.com)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:30AM from the taking-a-stand dept.

In a bid to fight fake news read while on your phone, Microsoft's mobile Edge browser on Android and iOS now includes the NewsGuard extension. From a report: The addition needs to be toggled on within the Edge settings menu to be enabled. Once it is, Edge will display a small shield icon next to the site's URL in the search bar: a green shield with a checkmark for a trusted news site, and a red shield with an exclamation point inside of it for a site that NewsGuard believes isn't always accurate. (Some sites haven't been evaluated, and these will simply show a gray shield.)

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Fake news? by Anonymous Coward · 2019-01-23 07:37 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Jewish owned media is the biggest source of fake news there is. End of story.
Re:Miscreant-o-soft CENSORSHIP right in your brows by Rick+Schumann · 2019-01-23 08:58 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Why mod me down? Microsoft couldn't POSSIBLY abuse the power of this now could they? </sarcasm> Damnit, anyone with half a brain knows I'm right.