Microsoft and Newsguard approve of Buzzfeed, “twice selected as a Pulitzer Prize finalist.” Microsoft and Newsguard will be “helping” us with a new blacklisting service to save us from news the War Industry doesn’t like

“Newsguard” is a well funded imperialist hate group positioning itself and its many partners to censor every word published in the US--under the guise of “fact-checking” and “helping” us avoid fake news. The only “news” will be the narrative of US oligarchs. The underlying belief is that US taxpayers are global slaves who must fund mass murder and the Endless Unwinnable War Industry to include at minimum bombing Russia and “regime change” removal and/or murder of Putin. Newsguard’s neocon advisers include Tom Ridge, Richard Stengel, Ret. Gen. Michael Hayden, among others.

1/24/19, “Microsoft Now Decides if Climate Change News or Other Content is Reliable,” Watts Up With That, Eric Worrall, Guest Essay

“Microsoft have released a plugin for their Edge browser, which uses Newsguard ratings to mark Buzzfeed as reliable, and Breitbart, Drudge and Wikileaks as untrustworthy. At the time of writing they haven’t yet made up their mind about WUWT.

Microsoft Teams with Establishment ‘NewsGuard’ to Create News Blacklist
23 Jan 2019
Allum Bokhari

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.…

Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/01/23/microsoft-teams-with-establishment-newsguard-to-create-news-blacklist/

To see this new feature you need to install Edge on your iPhone or Android device, or perhaps use the Edge browser on your Microsoft computer.

For fun I pulled up a few screenshots of the ratings of Buzzfeed, Breitbart and WUWT;





The “reliable” rating for Buzzfeed in my opinion seems a little questionable, given their recent fake news embarrassment.

But the real question in my mind is, if Microsoft tells you web content is reliable, are they liable if you act on the content and suffer harm or loss?”

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Comment: Can Microsoft get its NATO pals to come over and blockade the US southern border since US military isn’t allowed to protect US borders from ongoing invasion?




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