It’s not like many people use Microsoft’s crappy browser anyway, but for those who do, conservative sites are now blacklisted. A new extension called “News Guard” has blacklisted conservative sites like Drudge Report, Breitbart and even British site Daily Mail as being “fake news.”
Guess what Microsoft didn’t blacklist as fake news sites? How about Buzzfeed, Media Matters, Salon and Huffington Post. The George Orwell 1984 novel is coming true.
The good news is that hardly anyone uses crappy Microsoft browsers anymore. If you aren’t on a Mac, you’re likely either using Chrome, Firefox or Opera. Microsoft’s “Edge” browser share is somewhere between 5-8% if you are being generous. If other browsers starting forcing this “News Guard” into their products, then things will be a lot more severe.
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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.
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.