Daily Kos
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| Creators | Markos Moulitsas |
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| Date launched | May 26, 2002 |
| Type of site | Blog |
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| ID | 867890 |
About Daily Kos
Daily Kos is a group blog and internet forum focused on the Democratic Party and liberal American politics. The site features a participatory political encyclopedia, glossaries, and other content. It is sometimes considered an example of "netroots" activism.
Daily Mail demands browser warning U-turn
The Daily Mail 's website is calling for a browser alert that criticises its journalism to be changed.
The NewsGuard plug-in currently brings up A Warning that says dailymail. co. uk "generally fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability".
It has given this advice since August.
But The Matter came to prominence last week, after Microsoft updated its Edge browser app for Android and iOS devices and.
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"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.
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 .
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.
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.
'Negative rating'Microsoft declined to comment on the dispute and referred the BBC to NewsGuard's developers.
They said they had already tried to engage with the publisher.
"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.
"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. "
Daily Mail Online is not the only news source to trigger such A Warning .
NewsGuard serves up the same Warning about Sputnik's siteVisitors 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.
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Source of news: bbc.com
