Richard Zack In The News

Protecting Your Digital Assets

I recently had a wonderful conversation with @Angelina Carleton on the Design Your Legacy podcast about the importance of protecting your digital assets. Check it out here!...

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This Is Just The Beginning for Digital Assets. Are you prepared?

“The emergence of digital assets has significantly complicated the estate planning process in several ways… The sheer volume and variety of digital assets can make it difficult to...

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Eternal Me aims to help people manage their digital assets after death

“Digital assets, we think, are much more living. The estate plan to be effective needs to be updated much more frequently than a traditional estate plan…” Thank you, Sam Raudins and...

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Our.News creates ‘nutritional’ fact-checking labels to help audiences make healthier news consumption choices

“Want to know exactly what makes up your media diet? This tool breaks down all the ‘ingredients’ of online articles to fight misinformation and build readers’ trust”...

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TechCrunch: Our.News fights misinformation with a ‘nutrition label’ for news stories

“We’ve intentionally combined objective facts about the article with subjective views,” Zack added. “We think that’s the solution … If you go purely subjective, then it’s just a...

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Troy-based start-up aims to combat online misinformation

“What if you could quickly check the “nutritional” information of a news article – the author, the story’s sources, the publisher and any bias the publication may have...

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Facebook, Twitter make moves to guard against misinformation in 2018 midterms and beyond

“On Oct. 2, New York-based tech startup Our.News has launched a Google Chrome and Firefox browser extension called Newstrition that provides users background information on media publishers...

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Why this serial entrepreneur in Troy is building a startup to fight misinformation

“Our.News is developing that application with the Newseum, a Washington, D.C. museum that celebrates free expression and the First Amendment, through a joint venture.” Thank you, Chelsea...

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Why corporate America isn’t freaking out about Democrats’ rising fortunes

“The CEO of Our.News, an online platform that helps users assess the validity of media items, teamed with the Washington, D.C.-based Newseum to create Newstrition, a browser extension that lets...

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Twitter accounts suspected in spreading of ‘fake news’ in 2016 still active

“I am hesitant to suggest more government regulation, but we are at a critical point,” said Richard Zack, head of Our.News, which describes itself as a nonpartisan misinformation filter web tool....

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