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Yahoo has announced a deal to purchase The Factual, a news rating company that scores media bias and credibility. Yahoo will implement this score to provide users with additional insight into the accuracy and reliability of the content they consume. “The acquisition continues Yahoo’s commitment to bringing trusted news and information to its nearly 900 million consumers worldwide and builds on the company’s future vision of news,” the search engine company said via press… Source link

Yahoo has acquired The Factual, a company that uses algorithms to rate the credibility of news sources, Yahoo president and general manager Matt Sanchez told Axios. Why it matters: The deal could provide Yahoo News’ 200 million+ monthly visitors with ratings for the thousands of news sources Yahoo aggregates on its site. “One of the biggest things that we hear from our users is that they’re worried about bias and how to understand the content that they’re consuming,” Sanchez said. Details:… Source link

The Federal Reserve announced that it would raise its benchmark Federal Funds Rate target range to between 0.25% and 0.50% last Wednesday in a long-awaited move seeking to combat decades-high inflation. The move is long overdue, Marketgauge.com Partner and Director of Trading Research & Education Michele Schneider told Yahoo Finance Live in a recent segment. “I think it should have happened already, quite honestly,” she said. “I think they should have been less concerned [with market… Source link

Chris Christie isn’t happy with President Trump’s premature claim of victory in the 2020 election. The former New Jersey governor on Wednesday criticized Trump after he prematurely claimed victory in the presidential race while baselessly alleging a “major fraud on our nation” as votes in key states continued to be counted and no candidate had collected 270 electoral votes. “There’s just no basis to make that argument tonight,” Christie told ABC News. “There just isn’t. All these votes have to… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Bing Delivers Credibility to Microsoft  The New York Times Source link

SAN FRANCISCO — In late May, Microsoft unveiled Bing, its new Internet search engine, in front of an audience of skeptics: technology executives and other digerati who had gathered near San Diego for an industry conference. To that crowd, Microsoft’s efforts to take on Google and Yahoo in the search business had become something of a laughingstock, and for good reason. Microsoft’s repeated efforts to build a credible search engine had fallen flat, and the company’s market share was… Source link