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10/23/2020Euronews: QAnon in Europe: How the COVID pandemic helped promote a dangerous conspiracy theory

10/22/2020The New York Times: How the WHO uses NewsGuard alerts to warn social media companies about healthcare hoaxes they’re spreading

10/21/2020Financial Times: NewsGuard exposes networks of partisan websites masquerading as local news sites, successfully evading rules set by Facebook, Twitter and others

10/20/2020Apple News Today podcast: Inside the partisan websites posing as local media

10/19/2020The Wall Street Journal: Partisan Sites Posing as Local News Expand Ahead of Election

10/16/2020The World: QAnon’s global reach

10/15/2020Financial Times: Local news is drowning in ‘pink slime’ ahead of US election

10/15/2020CNBC: Big Tech backlash over response to NY Post story—Here’s what it means for disinformation campaigns

10/13/2020Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Secretary General of NATO: New Technologies Can Strengthen Democracies

10/12/2020The New York Times: On Facebook, Misinformation Is More Popular Now Than in 2016

10/12/2020ABC News: More people engage with verifiably false news outlets on Facebook now than in 2016

10/12/2020Foreign Policy: QAnon’s Sound and Fury

10/11/2020National Review: Liberal Fake News Site Spends Millions to Target Facebook Users in Battleground Districts

10/03/2020C-SPAN: TechFreedom urges social media platforms to use NewsGuard to explain the trustworthiness of news sites

09/28/2020Modern Healthcare: 4 tips to tackle COVID-19 misinformation

09/22/2020FOX 32: NewsGuard teams up with Mount Sinai Health System to fight misinformation online

09/21/2020Vox Recode: How to guard your social feeds against election misinformation

09/15/2020AFP: Covid a ‘catalyst’ for QAnon’s rise in Europe

09/12/2020Financial Times: Defying crackdowns, QAnon continues its relentless global spread

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09/12/2020The Hill: QAnon spreads across globe, shadowing COVID-19

09/08/2020Slate: How QAnon Went Global

09/07/2020The New York Times: Trump Emerges as Inspiration for Germany’s Far Right

09/01/2020Microsoft On the Issues: New Steps to Combat Disinformation

08/15/2020WEALTHTRACK: Internet Disinformation

08/14/2020Coda: Now QAnon’s conspiracy theories are taking root across Europe

08/05/2020FOX 32: Teaching kids news literacy during the tricky time of remote learning

08/03/2020Chicago Sun-Times: Teaching kids news literacy could be a matter of life and death

07/30/2020CNN: A baseless US conspiracy theory found a foothold in Europe. New research shows how

07/30/2020Euronews: QAnon theories are merging with European conspiracies: report

07/24/2020District Administration: Fact from fiction: Teaching students to recognize fake news

07/06/2020Forbes: Big Advertisers Still Fund Hate And Disinformation Outside Of Facebook

07/01/2020Peoria Magazine: Protect Yourself From Fake News

06/29/2020Kaiser Health News: Conflicting COVID Messages Create Cloud Of Confusion Around Public Health And Prevention

06/27/2020The Information: Here’s an Idea for Advertisers Leaving Facebook—Support News

06/25/2020Vox: Facebook’s war against one of the internet’s worst conspiracy sites

06/18/2020Newsweek: False stories about “paid protesters” spike — again — in effort to delegitimize Black Lives Matter protests

06/03/2020The Economist: Fake news is fooling more conservatives than liberals. Why?

06/01/2020The Simplicity Principle: Truth & Trust In The Media

06/01/2020Tech Transparency Project: Google is Profiting from Coronavirus Conspiracy Sites

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05/27/2020Vox: Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden

05/27/2020NPR: Social Media Usage Is At An All-Time High. That Could Mean A Nightmare For Democracy

05/26/2020TechDecisions: Why Real, Trusted, Verified News Should Matter To Your Organization

05/22/2020Newsweek: Major Republican and Democratic campaign organizations are using shady “news” sites to spread political propaganda

05/20/2020POLITICO: COVID-19 misinformation widely shared on Twitter: report

05/17/2020The Week: The coronavirus infodemic

05/14/2020ZDNet: NewsGuard becomes free for all Microsoft Edge users

05/14/2020MediaPost: Microsoft To Give Edge Browser Users Access To NewsGuard Tools

05/14/2020TechDecisions: NewsGuard, Now Free on Microsoft Edge, Can Help You Make Informed Decisions

05/08/2020Corriere della Sera: Coronavirus and fake news, Facebook “stops” 9 of the 10 pages that have spread fake news in Italy

05/07/2020The New York Times: News Outlets Want More Advertisers to Act Like Burger King

05/07/2020Financial Times: Twitter failing to curb misinformation ‘superspreaders’, NewsGuard report warns

05/07/2020CBC Radio: The conspiracy theory that COVID-19 is connected to 5G cellphone networks spreads to Canada

05/06/2020euronews: Coronavirus: ‘Super-spreaders’ of COVID-19 misinformation on Facebook identified

05/05/2020POLITICO: In Europe, COVID-19 misinformation runs rife on Facebook: report

05/04/2020ZDNet: NewsGuard fights war against misinformation by enlisting millions of home-bound students

05/04/2020The Daily Star: Critical thinking key to media literacy

05/01/2020The German Marshall Fund: The Rise of the Parapolitical Sites as the Leading False-Content Producers

04/28/2020Axios: What experts say works for combating coronavirus misinformation

04/28/2020EdWeek Market Brief: Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan joins NewsGuard’s Advisory Board

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04/24/2020Vox: How the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory went from fringe to mainstream

04/23/2020HealthNewsReview.org: Shining a light on super-spreaders of coronavirus misinformation

04/21/2020Beet.TV: In Covid Crisis, Hoax Sites Proliferate, NewsGuard’s Steve Brill

04/21/2020MediaPost: Watchdog: Facebook Remains Riddled With COVID-19 Untruths

04/20/2020The Wall Street Journal: Coronavirus Misinformation Spreads on Facebook, Watchdog Says

04/07/2020WCPO 9: Internet trust tool tracking the spread of misinformation about coronavirus

04/06/2020MediaPost: How Publishers Can Avoid Keyword Blocking

04/03/2020ExchangeWire: Peer39 and NewsGuard partner to help brands avoid fake news and untrustworthy sites

04/02/2020Amobee: Supporting Journalism During COVID-19

04/02/2020MediaPost: NewsGuard Offers Database Of COVID-19 Misinformation Sites To Protect Credible News Sites From Blacklisting

03/31/2020Tech Times: Government Approved App Named NewsGuard to Help Deter Spread of Fake News Amidst Coronavirus Pandemic

03/30/2020The Telegraph: Coronavirus fake news ‘could cost lives’, Culture Secretary warns

03/30/2020Forbes: UK Government Launches Unit To Deal With Fake Coronavirus News

03/30/2020The Telegraph: Where did fake news of the UK alcohol ban come from?

03/30/2020E&T: Spreading Covid-19 deception should be an offence, says Tory MP

03/30/2020Good Housekeeping: The coronavirus scams you need to know about

03/29/2020UK Press Association: Online filtering service backed in fight against Covid-19 ‘fake news’

03/29/2020The Guardian: UK anti-fake news unit dealing with up to 10 false coronavirus articles a day

03/29/2020Daily Mail: Online filtering service backed in fight against Covid-19 ‘fake news’

03/24/2020ZDNet: NewsGuard drops its paywall to combat coronavirus misinformation

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03/24/2020New York Post: NewsGuard busts websites sharing fake coronavirus information

03/24/2020WGN 9: Fact or Fiction on COVID-19 and the stimulus package

03/24/2020FOX 32: Coronavirus news: What’s real and what’s fake?

03/20/2020The New Indian Express: COVID-19: Break the fake chain

03/20/2020American Libraries: Fighting Fake News in the Pandemic

03/19/2020Wired: NewsGuard tracked how a Coronavirus hoax went viral

03/19/2020Reuters: Coronavirus conspiracies go viral on Whatsapp as crisis deepens

03/19/2020S&P Global Market Intelligence: Social media giants face balancing act for tackling coronavirus misinformation

03/16/2020NPR "Morning Edition": NewsGuard Editor Warns of Dangerous COVID-19 Misinformation

03/13/2020Mercury News: Tools to help identify real vs. false online information

03/13/2020The Star Tribune: Debunking viral virus myths, facts and resources

03/09/2020The New York Times: Surge of Virus Misinformation Stumps Facebook and Twitter

03/09/2020The Australian: News fact checker coming to Oz

03/07/2020WGN-TV: The rise of COVID-19 also means a rise in misinformation — an expert weighs in

03/06/2020Fox 32 Chicago: Combating the coronavirus ‘infodemic’ (video)

03/04/2020BBC Newsnight: Coronavirus and fake news – what to believe? (video)

03/04/2020CTV News Vancouver: Medical expert warns of ‘harmful’ products touted as COVID-19 cures

03/03/2020ZDNet: Coronavirus misinformation spreading fast: Fake news on COVID-19 shared far more than CDC, WHO reports

02/28/2020STAT: The coronavirus ‘infodemic’ is real. We rated the websites responsible for it

02/26/2020ZDNet: NewsGuard Technologies launches Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center

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02/26/2020Forbes: Tracking Center Reveals Coronavirus Lies

02/26/2020The Australian: Fake news infecting health and politics

02/26/2020The Boston Globe: Coronavirus scams are infecting the Internet, but social-media sites are fighting back

02/26/2020CBS News Radio: Larry Magid speaks with Newsguard co-founders Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz (audio)

02/25/2020CBS News Radio: Get the truth & avoid misinformation about the Corona Virus

02/24/2020The Times: How to help stem the tide of disinformation

02/19/2020Financial Times: The uncomfortable truth about fake news

02/14/2020Rockford Register Star: Illinois library director among global soldiers fighting ‘fake news’

02/13/2020CPTV: Fake: Searching for Truth in the Age of Misinformation

02/11/2020ZDNet: 2020 election news survival guide: Keep your sanity and your friends with these three apps

02/06/2020The Washington Post: Is it local journalism, or just local propaganda?

01/30/2020Chicago Tribune: Commentary: The web is festering with dubious info about the coronavirus (and other health issues)

01/24/2020KWBU: Business of Health Care: Unfounded Health Claims

01/21/2020The New York Times: How Amazon, Geico and Walmart Fund Propaganda

01/18/2020Newsweek: New Analysis Finds Americans’ Engagement with Suspect News Sources on the Rise

01/17/2020The Boston Globe: Survey says: Many Americans love their fake news

12/26/2019The Philadelphia Citizen: The Cure for Fake News?

12/19/2019Nieman Lab: Fighting misinformation requires journalism, not secret algorithms

12/01/2019The Conversation: Expert ratings provided by NewsGuard are effective at reducing the spread of propaganda and disinformation

11/20/2019Journalism.co.uk: How can quality journalism thrive at a time of news deserts, misinformation and clickbait?

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11/16/2019The State Journal-Register: Library in Springfield, Illinois, launches ‘internet trust tool’

11/15/2019Columbia Journalism Review: NewsGuard participates in Columbia Journalism Review discussion of fact checking

11/12/2019Columbia Journalism Review: Columbia Journalism Review on the effectiveness of NewsGuard ratings and labels

11/11/2019Evening Standard: General election 2019: The battle for your newsfeed

11/10/2019WLRN: County Commission That Denied New York Times Subscription Claiming Fake News Faces Backlash

11/01/2019American Libraries: Check Your Facts: Libraries use tech tools to fight fake news

10/29/2019Press Gazette: News websites rated ‘red’ by Newsguard could miss out on ad money after agency deal

10/03/2019The Australian: NewsGuard shines a red light on fake news sources

09/18/2019Microsoft President Praises NewsGuard in Q&A

08/11/2019Beyond the Book: NewsGuard Takes on Fake News with Real Journalism

08/08/2019Multichannel News: Cable Industry Veteran Leo Hindery, Jr., Becomes An Investor In Newsguard

07/31/2019MediaPost: Study: 11% Of News Websites Spread False Health Information

07/31/2019Fox 32: NewsGuard helps sift fact from fiction among online media (video)

07/26/2019STAT: Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their reliability

07/24/2019Cablefax: YouGov research shows how internet and mobile phone providers can add value to their customers with NewsGuard

07/23/2019Michigan News: University of Michigan researchers switch to use NewsGuard News Website Reliability Index

06/06/2019European Journalism Observatory: NewsGuard’s “news trust” ratings rolled out to Europe

06/04/2019Press Gazette: US news ranking tool Newsguard appoints Conservative MP to advisory board

05/07/2019The Atlantic: NewsGuard “works smoothly” and “the ratings are sensible and well explained”

04/24/2019The Guardian: Untrustworthy news sites could be flagged automatically in UK

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04/24/2019Press Gazette: US start-up Newsguard rolls out trust rankings for major UK newsbrands

04/24/2019Press Association: ‘Fake news’ detection tool launches in UK

04/24/2019Karma Network: Sarah Brandt: NewsGuard “had the idea that the best way to solve a journalistic problem was by using journalism”

04/08/2019Library Journal: Toledo Lucas County Installs News Literacy Browser Extension

03/04/2019Lawfare: NewsGuard Takes on Fake News

02/19/2019The National: Regulation alone won’t be enough to rid us of fake news

02/17/2019The Daily Caller: CROVITZ: NewsGuard Treats News Equally — Whether It’s Left, Right Or Center

02/16/2019i24NEWS: Man Bites Dog’s Interview with NewsGuard’s General Manager (video)

02/15/2019WBUR/NPR's "Here & Now": Companies That Sift Through False News Online Are Creating A New ‘Trust Industry’

02/15/2019Public Knowledge: Public Knowledge urges Silicon Valley to follow Microsoft’s lead by providing NewsGuard ratings and write ups to their users

02/12/2019Campaign: Cairncross Report calls for UK regulation of digital platforms

02/11/2019www.parliament.uk: British MP Damian Collins calls on digital platforms to make NewsGuard available to identify “unreliable sources”

02/10/2019The Blade: Toledo library adds program for web, news literacy

02/07/2019The Christian Science Monitor: Can old-fashioned journalism combat fake news?

02/04/2019WTTW11: Browser Extension Rates News Sites Based on Journalistic Standards

02/03/2019The Wall Street Journal: Site Behind Northam Revelations Is Backed by GOP Operatives

02/01/2019Reuters: NewsGuard’s ‘real news’ seal of approval helps spark change in fake news era

01/31/2019The New York Times: Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing

01/31/2019CNET: Fake news spotter: How to enable Microsoft Edge’s NewsGuard

01/31/2019MediaPost: 500 Websites Improved Trust Practices Through Rating Process

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01/31/2019POLITICO: Pro Morning Tech: Jourová on privacy — Information on disinformation — Schaake’s question

01/27/2019Newsweek: Microsoft Installing App on Edge Browser That Helps Detect Fake News

01/25/2019Fox News: NewsGuard “is a good idea…pretty right down the middle…there’s accountability…that’s pretty profound.”

01/25/2019Slate: Just Trust Us

01/23/2019The Guardian: Don’t trust Daily Mail website, Microsoft browser warns users

01/23/2019The Verge: Microsoft is trying to fight fake news with its Edge mobile browser

01/23/2019Engadget: Microsoft’s mobile Edge browser begins issuing fake news warnings

01/23/2019WTOL 11: New program at Toledo Lucas Co. Library downloads program to filter accurate news

01/23/2019TechCrunch: Microsoft Edge on mobile now includes a built-in fake news detector

01/18/2019The Daily Signal: NewsGuard ‘Nutrition Label’ Ratings of News Sites Popular

01/17/2019The Blade: New literacy program at Toledo libraries

01/16/2019The New York Times: Veterans of the News Business Are Now Fighting Fakes

01/16/2019Forbes: NewsGuard Gets A Leg Up In The War On Real Fake News

01/15/2019Folio: Gaining Traction With Consumers and Platforms, NewsGuard Draws Scrutiny From RT, WikiLeaks

01/09/2019Wired: Here’s What Happens When News Comes With a Nutrition Label

12/17/2018Big Island Now: Libraries Join NewsGuard in News Literacy Partnership

12/12/2018LocalMediaInsider: NewsGuard’s trust initiative shows early promise

12/06/2018Politico: Health Warnings For News?

11/19/2018The Daily Signal: How to Tell If the News Is Reliable (podcast)

11/19/2018Adweek: This Startup Uses Old-School Journalism to Expose Fake News

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11/07/2018Editor & Publisher: NewsGuard Creates Ratings System to See if Websites Provide Legitimate News or Misinformation

11/02/2018Tech+Life: Guardians of the (Online) Galaxy

10/31/2018The Boston Globe: New tool helps stand guard against fake news

10/26/2018C-SPAN: Steven Brill on Distinguishing Between Journalism and “Fake News”

10/16/2018The Hill: Finding common ground in rating media

09/18/2018Yale Daily News: Yale alums combat “fake news” with startup

09/14/2018ProMarket: Journalism Over Algorithms: How One Company Is Attempting to Combat Fake News

08/27/2018Bloomberg: How NewsGuard Helps Consumers Fight Fake News (video)

08/23/2018Axios: NewsGuard launches first product with help from Microsoft

08/23/2018Wired: NewsGuard Wants to Fight Fake News With Humans, Not Algorithms

08/23/2018Microsoft: Defending against disinformation in partnership with NewsGuard

08/23/2018Axios AM: Situational Awareness

04/19/2018Politico: NewsGuard Expands with Veteran Journalists from New York Times and AP

04/10/2018Folio: Inside Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz’s War on Fake News

04/05/2018C-SPAN: Steve Brill on Journalism and “Fake News”

03/20/2018MSNBC: This entrepreneur says he has the secret to stopping fake news on Facebook

03/15/2018Daily Signal: With NewsGuard, 2 Longtime Journalists Enlist in War on Fake News

03/08/2018Bill O’Reilly No Spin News: NewsGuard Technologies to Release Website to combat Fake News

03/07/2018Business Insider: The former publisher of the Wall Street Journal says Facebook and Google don’t really want to be the ones solving their fake news problem — so he hopes to do it for them

03/07/2018CNBC: News Guard tackling ‘fake news’ epidemic

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03/06/2018The Observer: Can Human Journalists Beat Algorithms at Sniffing Out Fake News?

03/06/2018MediaPost: Why NewsGuard, Aimed At Fighting Fake News, Won’t Work

03/05/2018CBS: New venture aims to combat “fake news” on social media with warning labels

03/05/2018Axios: Coming this fall: ‘nutrition labels’ for news

03/05/2018Ad Week: Will This Rating Platform Really Protect Your Brand From Fake News?

03/05/2018Nieman Labs: This new initiative deploys humans to review, research, and rate U.S. news sites

03/05/2018MSNBC: Veteran Journalist launching new venture to weed out ‘fake news’

03/05/2018MediaPost: Brill, Crovitz Launch NewsGuard To Rate Sources, Fight Fake News

03/05/2018Washington Examiner: Steve Brill’s plan: How not to address the fake news problem

03/04/2018The Wall Street Journal: A New Business Takes On Fake News

03/04/2018CNN: This start-up wants to evaluate your news sources

03/03/2018Washington Post: A journalistic fix for fake news? A new venture seeks to take on the epidemic.

Press Release

10/22/2020NewsGuard teams up with Microsoft to create media literacy quiz

10/01/2020Dr. Kavita Patel Joins NewsGuard’s Global Advisory Board

09/25/2020Proposed Law Would Create New Duty of Care for the Digital Platforms, Including Transparency, Disclosure and a Requirement to Engage with Publishers

09/14/2020Mount Sinai Health System and NewsGuard Join Forces to Combat Health Misinformation

08/24/2020NewsGuard Statement: WHO Partnership

08/18/2020NewsGuard wins Pentagon-State Department contest for detecting COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation

07/31/2020NewsGuard Partners with BT to provide UK audiences with Online Misinformation Tool

07/20/2020TripleLift Forges Partnership With Newsguard As Ad Industry Confronts The Funding Of Misinformation Sites

07/08/2020pressrelations, Fraunhofer FKIE, and NewsGuard Join Forces to Detect Disinformation

06/09/2020NewsGuard launches iOS app, bringing its Nutrition Labels for news sites to iPhones and iPads

06/02/2020NewsGuard Launches HealthGuard, a New Tool to Protect Against Online Health Care Hoaxes

06/01/2020NewsGuard launches Android app, bringing its Nutrition Labels for news sites to users’ mobile devices

05/14/2020Microsoft Expands NewsGuard Adoption

05/04/2020Turnitin Partners with NewsGuard to Offer Students and Teachers its Media Literacy Tools

04/24/2020Arne Duncan Joins NewsGuard’s Global Advisory Board

04/21/2020Brigitte Trafford Joins NewsGuard’s Global Advisory Board

04/10/2020NewsGuard in cooperation with IPG Mediabrands UK help brands keep their ads off of COVID-19 misinformation websites while funding credible journalism

04/02/2020NewsGuard joins WHO-backed campaign against COVID-19 misinformation, offers data to help advertisers target trustworthy sites

04/02/2020Peer39 and NewsGuard partner to help brands avoid fake news and untrustworthy sites

03/27/2020NewsGuard Partners with DCMS and BT to Help Counter Spread of COVID-19 Fake News as Misinformation Peaks

03/24/2020A Statement from NewsGuard about COVID-19

03/03/2020106 Sites in the U.S. and Europe Now Promoting Coronavirus Misinformation

02/25/2020NewsGuard Launches Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center

02/12/2020Milan Library System becomes first Italian library to join global NewsGuard media literacy partnership

02/12/2020German Marshall Fund and NewsGuard Partner to Study Misinformation and Inform Solutions

12/10/2019EBLIDA and NewsGuard Announce Partnership to Bring Media Literacy Tool to European Public Libraries

11/20/2019NewsGuard Kite Marks Rate the Reliability of News Websites, Without Creating the Risk of Government Licensing of News Publishers

11/13/2019NewsGuard Debuts News Website Reliability Index, Creating the First Benchmark for Measuring News Reliability and Media Consumption Habits

10/30/2019IPG Mediabrands Partners With NewsGuard To Bring ‘Human Intelligence’ To Brand Safety, Enabling Advertisers To Support Journalism

10/24/2019Cologne City Library Becomes First NewsGuard Library Partner In Germany

10/09/2019Public Libraries 2030 and NewsGuard Announce Partnership to Bring Media Literacy Tool to European Public Libraries

09/23/2019Special Report: Inside NewsGuard’s First Year Fighting Misinformation

08/08/2019Cable Industry Veteran Leo Hindery, Jr., Becomes an Investor in NewsGuard

07/30/2019More than 10% of the news websites Americans rely on spread misinformation about health issues such as vaccines

07/23/2019University of Michigan’s Iffy Quotient shows steady drop of questionable information on social media, partners with NewsGuard for better data

06/04/2019Ed Vaizey, MP, Joins Global Advisory Board of NewsGuard to Support Its Efforts to Counter Misinformation Online

04/24/2019NewsGuard Announces UK Launch to Tackle Misinformation Online

01/31/2019More Than 500 Websites Improve their Journalism Trust Practices Through NewsGuard’s Rating Process

01/16/2019NewsGuard Now Available on Microsoft Edge Mobile Apps for iOS and Android

01/16/2019Toledo Lucas County Public Library Joins NewsGuard in News Literacy Partnership

01/09/2019Gallup Research Finds NewsGuard Ratings of News Websites Effective in Countering False Information, Misinformation and Disinformation

12/17/2018Hawaii Public Libraries Join NewsGuard in News Literacy Partnership

11/19/2018NewsGuard Launches ‘Human Intelligence’ BrandGuard Service to Help Advertisers Keep their Brands Off of ‘Fake News’ Websites

11/08/2018Stony Brook University and NewsGuard Team Up for News Literacy Initiative

11/05/2018NewsGuard Recognized with Leading Magazine Award for Innovation

10/29/2018NewsGuard’s Misinformation SWAT Team Issues Red Ratings to Two Networks Publishing Dozens of Hoax Websites

08/23/2018NewsGuard Announces Launch of Free Browser Plugin with Support from Microsoft

04/18/2018NewsGuard Announces Addition of Two Veteran Journalists to Analyst Team

03/05/2018Brill and Crovitz Announce Launch of NewsGuard to Fight Fake News