{"id":6649,"date":"2019-01-24T00:06:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T00:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/daily-mail-demands-browser-warning-u-turn\/"},"modified":"2019-01-24T00:06:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T00:06:47","slug":"daily-mail-demands-browser-warning-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/daily-mail-demands-browser-warning-u-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Mail demands browser warning U-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Daily Mail is calling for a web browser alert that criticises its journalism to be changed.<\/p>\n

The NewsGuard plug-in currently brings up a warning that says the newspaper’s website “generally fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability”.<\/p>\n

It has given this advice since August.<\/p>\n

But the matter came to prominence last week, after Microsoft updated its Edge browser app for Android and iOS devices and built in NewsGuard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This prompted several<\/a> other media outlets<\/a> to report the story.<\/a><\/p>\n

“We have only very recently become aware of the NewsGuard start-up and are in discussions with them to have this egregiously erroneous classification resolved as soon as possible,” said a spokesman for Mail Online.<\/p>\n

At present, NewsGuard must be switched on by users of Microsoft’s Edge app, but the BBC understands there are plans for it to become the default option in the future.<\/p>\n

The New York-based service – which is independent of Microsoft – also has ambitions to include its tool in further products from the Windows developer as well as other tech firms. <\/p>\n

But for now, it can be used as an add-on extension in the desktop version of web browsers including Edge, Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari.<\/p>\n

‘Negative rating’<\/h2>\n

Microsoft declined to comment on the dispute and referred the BBC to NewsGuard’s developers.<\/p>\n

They said they had already tried to engage with the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

“Our journalist analysts always contact websites if they get a negative rating on any of our nine journalistic criteria. The Mail Online chose not to reply,” co-chief executive Gordon Crovitz, who used to oversee the Wall Street Journal’s business and journalism operations, told the BBC.<\/p>\n

“Dozens of news websites have changed their practices based on our journalistic criteria on credibility and transparency in order to become more reliable sources of news.”<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail is not the only news source to trigger such a warning.<\/p>\n

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\n NewsGuard serves up the same warning about Sputnik’s site
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Visitors to the right-wing US conspiracy site InfoWars, the left-wing US political blog Daily Kos and the Russian government news agency Sputnik also see the same words of advice.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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