Can the average person really discern whether or not something is fake news? We are living in the world where the news more closely resembles a headline from The Onion than ever before. Enter NewsGuard, an extension you can add to your browser through Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari, which provides ratings regarding a website’s trustworthiness. Who bestows the ratings? Fact-checking journalists, that’s who. The Toledo Lucas County Public Library now offers this addition on all of their public computers, so rest easy.
Fake News!
Can the average person really discern whether or not something is fake news? We are living in the world where the news more closely resembles a headline from The Onion than ever before. Enter NewsGuard, an extension you can add to your browser through Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari, which provides ratings regarding a website’s trustworthiness. Who bestows the ratings? Fact-checking journalists, that’s who. The Toledo Lucas County Public Library now offers this addition on all of their public computers, so rest easy.
