By now, you may have heard of the news fact-checking app, NewsGuard. NewsGuard assigns reliability ratings to sites that publish news. Because the timing of several U.S.-based fact-checking services (Snopes and A.P.) stating they quit fact-checking for Facebook, hinting at new improved approaches that will benefit the entire internet, not just Facebook, coincides with the roll-out of NewsGuard’s app on Microsoft’s mobile browser and in some US libraries, NewsGuard Technologies is currently lobbying to have its app installed by default on all smartphones and computers sold in the United States, let’s take a look at the self-described news rating agency, NewsGuard Technologies.
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