news websites: News Guard is run by news industry veterans and says it is trying to establish industry-standard benchmarks for which news websites should be trusted, according to The Guardian. It employs analysts to manually check whether sites meet a series of journalistic standards, making all its judgments public and inviting outlets to respond to criticism and improve their standards to gain a higher rating. Visitors to Mail Online who use Microsoft Edge can now see a statement asserting that this website generally fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability and has been forced to pay damages in numerous high-profile cases . The message, which is produced by a third-party startup called News Guard, tells readers to proceed carefully given that the site regularly publishes content that has damaged reputations, caused widespread alarm, or constituted harassment or invasion of privacy . It gives Mail Online, one of the world's biggest news websites, one out of five on credibility the same level as the Kremlin-backed RT news service. Facebook Twitter Pinterest News Guard's verdict on the Mail Online. Edge has a tiny proportion of the global internet browser market and the News Guard plug-in is only included on the version for mobile users, not desktop users. Photograph Daily mail Until now, the service has only been available as a downloadable plug-in but this week Microsoft began installing it automatically on all mobile editions of its Edge browser, the successor to Internet Explorer, in the first stage of what its creators hope will be a widespread roll-out across multiple platforms.
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