Posted on 01/23/2019 3:37:31 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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.
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 “red” rating. Newsguard says the site “fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability.”
WikiLeaks, which has never had to retract a story due to false or misleading information, is also given a “red” rating.
Among the websites given a “green” 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 … after Mueller contradicted it.
But in Newsguard’s view, BuzzFeed “regularly corrects or clarifies errors.”
Many of the websites that recently fed the fake news feeding frenzy against students of Covington Catholic high school in Kentucky, who were falsely accused of taunting a left-wing Native American agitator, are also given a “green” rating. These include CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.
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How odd. Well, they did end up fixing it. It was rough 2 years ago.
I’m not always on cutting edge, but I’ve never bought a computer with OS installed. Built my first PC in 1982.
Am 71 now, not likely to change my habits soon. I like new electronics, but am an old Ham Op. Very cheap on what I buy. smile.
I still use command line stuff for lots of things. Day before yesterday I used mogrify command to strip a batch of .jpg images of there Exif data before I posted one of them to the web for a foreign friend. (Image Magic is a powerful tool)
But I’m not a programmer.
My recommendation is Vivaldi. I think it’s great.. fast, low memory usage, nice layout. It is built by the original Norwegian team that designed Opera before it was sold to a Chinese company.
Bump. You old enough to have perspective.
Congrats.
Yes, But firefox took Soros money too.
I did not like the consequences and no longer trust them.
But will they?
Bill Kristol & his crowd are involved with this.
So? Unless its baked in, you can always remove an extension.
Or just turn it off to keep it from pestering you.
The Ministry of Propaganda doesn’t want you to see anything but their product.
How odd. Well, they did end up fixing it. It was rough 2 years ago.
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I still have it on my laptop - unused. Maybe I should update it & see what happens.
Its in the mobile Edge browser but turned off in mine.
I won’t let the fake news Stasi monitor my browsing habits.
You know Minitrue decides what is true and what is false.
Remember: thoughtcrime IS death.
This is strange because it was recently announced that Microsoft was abandoning Edge and changing to some type of Google Chrome for their browser.
And, Microsoft's phone OS has been declared dead.
So they’re trolling us because we tune them out.
That’s why they created Newsguard. We’re too dangerous to be left to our own devices.
Firefox is a product of Mozilla, the company that fired Brandon Eich, their key product developer over a political contribution.
can anyone at FR help me get
ProtonMail working?
tia
Rocky
“Those of US who don’t cooperate? Will we be forced to conform?”
When was the last time you walked into a liberal bar and tried to pick a fight?
I don’t drink. Have not been to a bar in 30 years. But at 71, think I can still hold my own with the typical lib.
I’ve never used it. Email was once very simple. Not so much today. It all depends upon who the provider is. The government and record keeping is most of the problem.
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