NewsGuard, no subscription until July
NewsGuard tells you if a site is reliable as you browse online news. For advertisers (Editor’s note: Publicis Groupe is among investors), The NewsGuard rating of news websites separates sites that are doing reliable journalism from purveyors of false or misleading news or disinformation. Advertisers use the NewsGuard ratings to build a list of reliable news sites safe for advertising and to keep ads off inappropriate sites.
“Sites that fail to meet basic journalistic criteria or that spread misinformation are flagged with a red ‘unreliable’ rating so users know to be skeptical of it – and each site has a detailed rating that explains the site and any trust issues,” Matt Skibinski of NewsGuard.
“While NewsGuard is normally a subscription product,” he continued, “we've just announced that we're removing our paywall and making NewsGuard free until 1 July to help fight misinformation about COVID-19, which is spreading rapidly online.”
NewsGuard operates in the US, UK, France, Germany and Italy. Here also are versions of the announcement in French, Italian and German.
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