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Articles tagged NewsGuard (8)

Shraddha ChakradharMay 11, 2022

Do browser extensions keep anyone away from fake news sites? Maybe a tiny bit

A new study finds that NewsGuard’s credibility ratings for news sites helped steer the most frequent consumers of misinformation towards more reliable outlets.

NewsGuard changed its mind about The Daily Mail’s quality: It’s green now, not red

Joshua BentonOctober 31, 2018

This new project wants to do for news trust what FiveThirtyEight does for polls: Aggregate a bunch of signals into something meaningful

“The goal is to make those signals more useful and to help platforms…make better, more informed decisions about ranking and ad purchases — which we hope will help drive both promotion and financial support to quality news and away from disinformation, misinformation, and junk.”

Shan WangAugust 24, 2018

Is there really data that heavy Facebook use caused…erm, is correlated with…erm, is linked to real-life hate crimes?

Plus: Does all our yammering about fake news make people think real news is fake?

Ken DoctorJuly 2, 2018

Newsonomics: What’s next for the L.A. Times, and a few other questions of the moment for the news business

Warren Buffett may not have sold his newspapers, but he sure looks to be throwing in the towel.

Ken DoctorMarch 9, 2018

Newsonomics: Is Tronc due for a crash? And a few other questions about this busy week in the news business

Plus: Digital First’s owner gets sued for alleged bad behavior, The Athletic looks to get huge, and Advance newspapers start poking at paywalls.

Shan WangMarch 5, 2018

This new initiative deploys humans to review, research, and rate U.S. news sites

“We’re making the kinds of judgments that we think will be noncontroversial, but still are the kind of judgments that platforms, rightly, don’t want to be making themselves.”

Ken DoctorDecember 15, 2017

Newsonomics: 15 terms that summed up 2017 in news and news coverage

From “meltdown” to “roll-up” to (of course) “fake.”