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NewsGuard, a for-profit company that provides news websites with "reliability ratings," is selling its "Misinformation Fingerprints" tool to Microsoft and other private companies after it was awarded a grant from the federal government to develop the technology.The company developed its rating syste...

NewsGuard is reportedly selling censorship technology funded by some $750,000 in taxpayer dollars to a slew of companies that include Microsoft.

Because NewsGuard worked with the Defense Department to test its technology, the government likely gave input in defining 'disinformation.'