“Microsoft was the first technology company to embrace NewsGuard’s ratings as a ‘middleware’ solution, integrating NewsGuard tools into its products, empowering Microsoft users with choices to protect themselves and their families from misinformation online. “We are delighted to be able to continue to expand our relationship with Microsoft, which has consistently been the leader among global companies in taking steps to address the unforeseen, unintended consequences of new technologies,” said NewsGuard co-CEO Gordon Crovitz. NewsGuard will also continue to provide its data for use in promoting trustworthy sources of news and information by Microsoft News and the Bing search engine and provide training, resources, and other support to Microsoft’s efforts, announced last fall, to preserve and protect journalism and local newsrooms.
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Also, all users of Microsoft Edge’s desktop and mobile browser will have free access to the extension which display’s NewsGuard’s ratings, without paying the $2.95 monthly subscription fee that users of other browsers must pay. NewsGuard plans to expand the program into new countries, including Australia and Canada, later this year.
Microsoft will continue to implement NewsGuard data as a key resource to reinforce its efforts to counter disinformation, support credible journalism, and work against financial incentives to promote untrustworthy content.Ī few key terms form the new three-year agreement include the following: NewsGuard’s news literacy initiatives will continue to be sponsored by Microsoft’s Defending Democracy program-through which more than 800 public libraries provide NewsGuard to their more than seven million patrons in the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy.
(New York, June 14, 2021) NewsGuard Technologies, which uses trained journalists to review and rate the credibility of thousands of news and information websites and their associated social media accounts, today announced a significant expansion and extension of its licensing agreement with Microsoft. New Agreement Continues Microsoft’s Access to NewsGuard Data to Increase Resilience Against Disinformation and Support Credible Journalism. NewsGuard Extends and Expands Licensing Agreement with Microsoft
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