Microsoft Teams with Establishment โNewsGuardโ 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 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 โNewsguard,โ presents users with a red warning label if they navigate to a website that it judges to be unreliable. A โgreenโ rating is given to websites that NewsGuard considers trustworthy.
A number of pro-Trump websites, including Breitbart News, are given a โredโ 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 โredโ rating. Newsguard says the site โfails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability.โ
WikiLeaks, which has never had to retract a story due to false or misleading information, is also given a โredโ rating.
Among the websites
given a โgreenโ 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 โฆ after Mueller contradicted it.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019...blishment-newsguard-to-create-news-blacklist/
โThis is what censorship and thought control looks likeโ