Proceed with Caution

Just a regular sign of a blind corner, an overhead crane area, wild animals crossing and news you should be careful with, while reading.

Proceed with caution: this website general fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability.

NewsGuard, an online tool masterminded by folks like the former head of CIA, Gen. Michael Hayden, that flags good news websites as green and those it sees as dodgy ones as red. It's been up to you if you want to install the plugin or not, unless you are a user of the Microsoft edge web browser.

After launching in the U.S, NewGaurd will expand to serve the billions of people globally who get news online.

So perhaps a little contract with Microsoft could be one of the first steps of that expansion.

This is what one of UK's most read outlets rated one out of five for credibility.

We have only very recently become aware of the NewsGuard start-up and are in discussions with them to have this egregiously erroneous classification resolved as soon as possible.

With CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, VOA and BuzzFeed, most or all the criteria is fine, green light, you are good to go.

Do you really expect the brainchild of a Board of Advisors that's comprised of all kinds of former American security and foreign affairs officials to flag Wikileaks red.

Microsoft is okay with these people being in charge of which color goes where as long as the tech giants get to avoid more awkward questions like, why aren't you dealing with all that fake news?.

Everyone chooses their own way to proceed with caution.