PragerU slammed NewsGuard, a for-profit company that is running a mass blacklisting campaign working with corporations and advertisers to strangle conservative media. PragerU is shining a light on its sly and “insidious” practices aimed at driving conservative media outlets “out of business.” The nonprofit founded by Dennis Prager has launched an X/Twitter takeover with the hashtag #EndBigTechCensorship to expose NewsGuard’s practices.
“It might drive you out of business if you don’t comply, but of course, that’s the plan,” Streit added, pointing out that the Federalist editor Mark Hemingway, who has gone through this type of lose-lose questioning, has referred to NewsGuard as “an extortion racket.”The PragerU CEO also pointed out that Big Tech has found a loophole in censoring speech online with the help of NewsGuard:
Now, thanks to NewsGuard, an enterprise Big Tech funds, they have a place to hide. They say, “We didn’t make any judgements. We hired this third-party fact checker and they told us this story or that website can’t be trusted.”Moreover, the government has also found a way to censor speech, with the Defense Department paying NewsGuard over $700,000 to monitor “misinformation” on the internet — an Orwellian way of saying “information that the Defense Department doesn’t like,” Streit added.