Anonymous ID: 684876 Jan. 23, 2019, 3:54 p.m. No.4879677   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9694

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Microsoft Teams with Establishment ‘NewsGuard’ to Create News Blacklist

 

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 setting 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.

 

It shouldn’t be surprising that Newsguard has a bias against independent and anti-establishment media though: the team behind the browser extension include top neocons and members of America’s foreign policy establishment, including Trump-hating former CIA director Michael Hayden, and former members of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations.