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I just read a report that Mozilla's Firefox would be blocking non approved news. Or fake news as you may call it.

Is this true?

I just read a report that Mozilla's Firefox would be blocking non approved news. Or fake news as you may call it. Is this true?

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It's not true.

More info on what Mozilla is doing: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/08/08/mozilla-information-trust-initiative-building-movement-fight-misinformation-online/

Note this first phase: "Later this year, Mozilla will be releasing original research on how misinformation impacts users’ experiences online. We will be drawing on a dataset of user-level browsing data gathered during the 2016 U.S. elections."

To keep up with future changes in Firefox from sources that know Firefox well, I suggest:

This subreddit has information and debate about all changes and controversies related to Firefox: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/

This site publishes details of upcoming technical changes to Firefox, useful add-ons, workarounds, and lots of commenting: https://www.ghacks.net/?s=firefox

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It's not true.

More info on what Mozilla is doing: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/08/08/mozilla-information-trust-initiative-building-movement-fight-misinformation-online/

Note this first phase: "Later this year, Mozilla will be releasing original research on how misinformation impacts users’ experiences online. We will be drawing on a dataset of user-level browsing data gathered during the 2016 U.S. elections."

To keep up with future changes in Firefox from sources that know Firefox well, I suggest:

This subreddit has information and debate about all changes and controversies related to Firefox: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/

This site publishes details of upcoming technical changes to Firefox, useful add-ons, workarounds, and lots of commenting: https://www.ghacks.net/?s=firefox