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One week ago, Microsoft's Edge browser on mobile devices told users visiting the Daily Mail's website that the newspaper was untrustworthy.

But, after "discussions with a Daily Mail executive" NewsGuard, the third-party company that Microsoft used, has changed its rating from a negative one to a positive one according to the BBC.

Accompanied by a positive green shield in the URL bar, Newsguard now says that the Daily Mail, its sister publication the Mail On Sunday, and website Mail Online "generally maintains basic standards of accuracy and accountability."

NewsGuard is a third-party application headed by ex-journalists from the Yale Journalism Initiative and The Wall Street Journal, to rank popular websites as part of its attempt to fight fake news.

Originally the company said that its poor rating was due to the number of complaints sent to the Independent Press Standards Organisation, but that it had not considered this against how many stories the website publishes.

A spokesman for Mail Online said it was an "egregiously erroneous classification".

Newsguard now says that the Daily Mail "avoid[s] deceptive headlines", "reveal[s] who is in charge of the website and any conflicts of interest", and does not "repeatedly [publish] false content."

It still reports that the newspaper does not effectively handle the difference between news and opinion, and still fails present information responsibly.

Newsguard used to be solely available as a downloadable plug-in, but now comes pre-installed within the mobile app. While there are apparently plans to enable it by default in the future, for now users are still required to go into the settings pane and turn it on, so it's debatable how many users will even see the rating.