{"id":35270,"date":"2019-01-24T11:13:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35270"},"modified":"2019-01-24T11:13:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T16:13:24","slug":"putting-the-fox-in-charge-of-the-hen-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35270","title":{"rendered":"Putting The Fox In Charge Of The Hen House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Breitbart<\/a> reported on the latest attempt by Microsoft to end the plague of fake news. It’s a valiant effort.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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<\/em>.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Actually all three of those sources have a better track record than many of the news sources that Microsoft has labeled as reliable.<\/p>\n

The article cites some examples:<\/p>\n

The website of the conservative-leaning British newspaper\u00a0The Daily Mail,\u00a0<\/em>which has the third-highest circulation in the U.K., is also given a \u201cred\u201d rating. Newsguard says the site \u201cfails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

WikiLeaks, which has never had to retract a story due to false or misleading information, is also given a \u201cred\u201d rating.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among the websites given a \u201cgreen\u201d 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 \u2026\u00a0after\u00a0<\/em>Mueller contradicted it<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But in Newsguard\u2019s view, BuzzFeed \u201cregularly corrects or clarifies errors.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 \u201cgreen\u201d rating. These include CNN, the\u00a0New York Times,\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0Washington Post.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Also \u201cgreen\u201d \u2014 Media Matters, the Clintonite Democrat website that regularly publishes hit-jobs against conservative media publications and personalities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rolling Stone,\u00a0<\/em>the magazine infamous for publishing a hoax rape allegation against members of a University of Virginia fraternity in 2015 is also given a \u201cgreen\u201d rating. Newsguard says the outlet has \u201cconsistently published well-researched, factual information about contemporary American culture.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some left-wing sources are given \u201cred\u201d ratings by Newsguard. However, they tend to be on the anti-establishment side of Democratic politics: ShareBlue and the Daily Kos, for example, both have \u201cred\u201d ratings. Salon and the Huffington Post, however, do not.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Obviously, to anyone who actually pays attention to accuracy in the media, the best way to use this list is to regard those news sources marked in red as reliable and those news sources marked in green as fake news. The past histories of each group support that theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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