Posted on 03/14/2023 9:21:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the bowels of the disinformation industrial complex, which is all about rating conservative media outlets as 'disinformation' in order to persuade advertisers to defund them, NewsGuard has always stood a little apart.
It says it's transparent. It says it's private. It says it's apolitical, and politics never occurs to them as they issue their utterly objective ratings. It's not like those creepy "Lives of Others" censors at the U.K.-based Global Disinformation Index who took $330 million in U.S. State Department cash to carry out their censor-the-conservatives blacklist, marketing it as objective truth-telling. Noo, siree. GDI was so naked in its hate for the conservative media they got their government money yanked (supposedly) after the political atmosphere got hot. (We'll see).
NewsGuard was supposedly better than that. It had standards. It was no tool on any government agency's string.
Turns out NewsGuard took U.S. government money, too, in the form of a grant from the Pentagon, and in ways such as contest-winnings from other agencies.
Margot Cleveland, writing at The Federalist, which is one of the many conservative news outlets on NewsGuard's blacklist (it also includes American Thinker), reports how the problem came out in congressional hearings:
The media-ratings giant NewsGuard denied it was “government-funded” after being called out as part of the vast Censorship Complex during congressional hearings last week. But government records and the company’s own public announcement celebrating a nearly $750,000 federal grant suggest otherwise.
On Thursday, independent journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger appeared before the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to testify about what they had discovered during a review of internal Twitter communications. An hour before the weird hearing began, Taibbi released the latest installment of the “Twitter Files.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The left wants to control what information you can access and the Twitter revelations don’t seem to have fazed them in their continuing efforts to become more like China.
“The left wants to control what information you can access...”
Yes, but the good news is, they are fighting a losing battle. This is the Information Age, and information wants to be free. The left is just the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, trying to hold back the inevitable.
I agree.
They're all government propaganda outlets.
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