NewsGuard, a company that aims to help identify reliable news sources, has stopped using the labels 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' as they were politicized and partisan. They now explain whether a claim is '[...] explicitly false, AI-generated, unsubstantiated or manipulated'.
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By Sophie Culpepper for @niemanlab.
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@dw_innovation @niemanlab These descriptions provide more information, but does NewsGuard provide a generic description of how they 'justify' the labels. I am most concerned about the 'explicitly false' label as it can arise out of a misunderstanding of the situation by the information provider not just out-right lies.
