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.
Among the websites given a “green” rating is BuzzFeed,
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Very interesting which sites are acceptable in the article...
HMMM. I wonder.... You know how when you were a teenager, many liked to defy authority, and look at forbidden stuff?
Maybe this will backfire. Wouldn’t that be a kick in the …?