Private company NewsGuard on defense in GOP crackdown on Big Tech censorship

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Republican lawmakers probing Big Tech censorship say one of their next targets must be NewsGuard, an operation that bills itself as an “anti-misinformation” warrior but which conservatives say is another avenue for silencing voices on the right.

NewsGuard is one of a web of private companies that purports to police the news business, delivering verdicts on which publications can be trusted and which cannot. It bills its work as “apolitical,” but critics say it consistently finds fault with reporting done by news outlets seen as conservative while excusing similar reporting by liberal outlets.

But they also urged scrutiny of the network of news raters they said have helped privatize and expand censorship. GDI has gotten funding from several State Department sources, including the National Endowment for Democracy. The endowment said earlier this month that it would cut ties, saying it had paid the organization for work abroad but was troubled by GDI’s work on U.S. outlets.

“It’s valuable for people in the defense community, whose job it is to understand hostile information operations, particularly from Russia and China, which are both very active,” he said in an interview with The Washington Times.“It is true we’re proud of our work with the Department of Defense,” he said. “It frankly surprised us that members of Congress raised questions about that contract and we think they did that out of a misunderstanding of the nature of our work.

In letters to both organizations, Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana, Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, and Burgess Owens of Utah said both AFT and NewsGuard’s “history of demonstrating left-wing bias” raises concern that they aim to politicize the classroom.

 

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Hum, Deus limpe o Estados Unidos e proteja os seus🙏

Newsguard is a subsidiary of the DNC and created to attack political opponents of the current regime.

There should be a class action lawsuit… MANY of us were silenced, fact checked into complete silence & it made worse by the “pandemic”, where we were forced to stay inside, wear masks/veils, social distancing, no night out to even a movie, while woke culture & violence ran wild

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