Our.News was a

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platform that provided "nutritional labels" combining automated and user-assigned scores to rate the reliability of news articles. The platform was available both as a

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and

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, and a mobile app for

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. The Labels were aimed to combat online misinformation, providing a condensed breakdown of the background ingredients and information that make up any news article. This included info about the publisher, author, editor, third-party fact checks, article sources, AI article classifications, and public opinion ratings. The company's "Nutrition Labels for News" products were also branded as Newstrition. Richard Zack was the founder of the company and served as chief executive officer. Neta Iser was a Co-founder and held the position of Chief Data Scientist, and Jared McKiernan served as editor. Since July 20, 2023, the website is inactive.

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