Author Archives: Arjun Moorthy

With the rampant spread of misinformation on social networks people are more aware they must evaluate the news with a critical eye.

This week NewsGuard launched to much fanfare as it heralds the end of fake news with “nutrition labels” for 7500 news sites. Unfortunately the effort misses the real issues that plague the news today — news bias and variable quality journalism.

We recently launched a Chrome extension that helps people understand if the news they are reading is high quality and suggests better articles from across the political spectrum. The launch was a decent success after a string of failures.