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

Posted by msmash on 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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  1. First hilarious casualty by cyber-vandal · · Score: 3, Informative

    The UK Daily Mail, a well-known source of ill-informed and reactionary garbage.

  2. Don't get your hopes up, lefties by MikeRT · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because it's backed by the neocons. You remember them, right? The folks whose handling of intelligence over Iraq made Obama's handling of the DIA report on ISIS look like a highly cordial disagreement between respectful parties? If they say that Hitler is a bad guy, you better get independent sources.

  3. Yeah, sure by RightwingNutjob · · Score: 5, Informative

    BuzzFeedNews rated as trustworthy. Nope.

    I guess Microsoft is competing with Google in the Wokelympics.

  4. Re:Thanks, but no thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    And in your 66 years you've learned zero about how to validate sources. Did you even bother to go and see what sort of affiliations the people making that assessment have? I'll give you a hint - it's not all from the left. Now I know that's an impossibility for you but for the rest of us we can see that when a pool of people from a broad political spectrum all agree that a site is untrustworthy, we're pretty comfortable with it.

    You continue to wear your blinders. It makes your world that much more comfortable in your waning years, I'm sure.

  5. Re:They seem shady by Ashe+Tyrael · · Score: 3, Informative

    On the other hand, they aren't wrong in some cases:

    From the Daily Mail results: "The site repeatedly publishes false information and has been forced to pay damages in numerous high-profile cases."

    Yup.

    --
    "How fine you look when dressed in rage."
  6. Re:They seem shady by porlryan · · Score: 1, Informative

    You missed out https://www.dailykos.com/ from your list. A left-wing site. Don't you care about transparency?