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NewsGuard Labels Buzzfeed ‘Trustworthy,’ Breitbart Fact Check ‘Untrustworthy’
Breitbart ^ | 29 Jan, 2019 | Allum Bokhari

Posted on 01/30/2019 6:21:04 AM PST by budj

Demonstrating its inability (or unwillingness) to effectively fact check establishment-approved news sources, the neocon-backed and Microsoft partnered NewsGuard news rating service currently presents users with a green “trustworthy” marks next to links to BuzzFeed’s bogus Moscow Tower story, while putting red “untrustworthy” warnings next to Breitbart News links correcting it.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: media; politics; trust

1 posted on 01/30/2019 6:21:04 AM PST by budj
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To: budj

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Stay the course.


2 posted on 01/30/2019 6:23:44 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Socialism is for losers.)
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To: budj

These haters on the left have long ago burned their bridges.


3 posted on 01/30/2019 6:24:23 AM PST by Gumdrop (Counting candidagtes according to the shades f pigment in their skin.)
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To: budj

Who the hell is checking on the liars at “Newguard”?


4 posted on 01/30/2019 6:25:33 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: budj

Several European newspapers have complained about this, too. We may see Microsoft remove NewsGuard soon.


5 posted on 01/30/2019 6:33:32 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: budj

It is not so much their pronouncements that matter - it is that search results are filtered based on them.

Google outsources the blame for political bias, by using such sources, and does so deliberately.


6 posted on 01/30/2019 6:34:09 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“Who the hell is checking on the liars at “Newguard”?”

Why, Snopes of course !

And Buzzfeed started off with funny things online. Kinda like Comedy Central. Comedy Central also has a “news program” that is taken completely seriously by the general public.


7 posted on 01/30/2019 6:34:20 AM PST by Celerity
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To: budj

These groups are made of inbred proggies, feeding each other’s need for control over the masses to achieve their grand ideal version of society.

Nothing will change until the SHTF, which they are pushing us toward with a vengeance.


8 posted on 01/30/2019 6:49:45 AM PST by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: budj

All leftist sources are promoted, and all truthful sources suppressed. That was their intention, and they have implemented it.


9 posted on 01/30/2019 7:07:15 AM PST by I want the USA back (In any war between the civilized world and the savage support the civilized man. -Geller.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

>Who the hell is checking on the liars at “Newguard”?

Right! I installed the plugin for Opera, went to CNN and it had a green check. Proceeded to uninstall it. Worthless feel good garbage


10 posted on 01/30/2019 7:19:28 AM PST by nevadapatriot
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To: budj

Like this was unexpected!


11 posted on 01/30/2019 7:28:24 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Celerity

In a free local weekly newspaper here, one libidiot wrote that the paper should not let conservatives post articles that are blatantly false, because he fact-checked it against snopes. I can’t wait for this weeks edition to arrive for the rebuttals! LMAO!


12 posted on 01/30/2019 7:31:54 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: budj

Every Democrat is a violent totalitarian thug.


13 posted on 01/30/2019 7:38:30 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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