Can
a Browser Add-On End Our Addiction to Misinformation?
To fight rampant online misinformation, researchers at NYU and Princeton tested browser extension NewsGuard, which flags sites to show how trustworthy they are. Sources like Reuters and AP get green shields for “basic standards of accuracy,” Epoch Times and Daily Kos get red warning shields, and those containing unvetted posts, like YouTube and Wikipedia, earn gray shields. Around 3,000 participants representing the U.S. population tried NewsGuard while another group browsed as before. The good news: The biggest drop in consuming low-quality information came in the high-misinformation-consumer group. The bad news? They were the least likely to download protective extensions. (Source: Popular Science)
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