Letter to Congress Cites MRC Study to Slam Teachers Union Partnership with Biased NewsGuard

NewsBusters ^ | 4/22/2022 | Joseph Vazquez

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Nineteen organizations demanded Congress investigate the Orwellian partnership between leftist website ratings firm NewsGuard and the anti-parent American Federation of Teachers.

A coalition of education and tech policy groups, led by Fight for Schools, warned in their letter to Congress: “Given the rise of political intolerance within academic institutions and censorship from the tech industry, we are alarmed by this partnership and its implications for core American values in our schools.” The letter stipulated that “we are calling on Congress to investigate this partnership, including its origins, its intentions, its applications, and the broader issue of biased and conflicted so-called ‘anti-misinformation’ tools used in classrooms.” The letter cited an MRC study on NewsGuard ratings, which found that on a zero-to-100 grading scale, outlets classified as “left” or “lean left” by media bias rater AllSides were rated 27 points higher on average than news organizations that AllSides classified as “right” or “lean right.”