Posted on 01/26/2022 2:53:43 PM PST by Mount Athos
NewsGuard, the establishment “news-rating” project that presents itself as a source of expert knowledge on which news sources can be trusted and which ones cannot, will be rolling out to millions of American schoolchildren due to a partnership with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
Per Axios, the AFT will purchase NewsGuard licenses for all of its 1.7 million teachers, in a major deal for the news-rating project.
NewsGuard has had a reputation as a project of the political establishment since its inception.
NewsGuard maintains a list of news outlets it considers “trustworthy” and “untrustworthy,” data which it uses in a browser extension that users can add on to various mainstream browsers, including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
When the extension is installed, it displays red warning labels alongside links to websites NewsGuard considers untrustworthy, and green labels next to links to websites it considers trustworthy.
In 2019, NewsGuard partnered with Microsoft in a deal that made it a default extension on Edge Mobile browsers.
NewsGuard gives a “green” rating to websites like Rolling Stone, which has repeatedly published high-profile hoax stories. The magazine was responsible for one of the biggest media scandals in recent memory, when it published fraudulent rape claims against a fraternity at the University of Virginia in 2014.
More recently, the magazine ran a story containing the false claim that hospitals in Oklahoma were overflowing due to Ivermectin poisoning cases, as well as a news story claiming Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)o was “determined to put kids in danger.” NewsGuard still claims the Rolling Stone website “adheres to basic standards of credibility.”
BuzzFeed News, which published the infamous, debunked “pee dossier” in 2017, also gets a green rating from NewsGuard.
Meanwhile, NewsGuard gives Breitbart News a “red” rating...
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Newsguard sounds like red guard
Parents need to warn their children about public school teachers.
Home school
Your comparison is correct.
Today a red or green flag, tomorrow the source will simply be blocked if they (those that set this up) don’t agree.
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Censorship in any form is still censorship.
The left’s take over of many of our institutions will have unintended consequences (which they will be unable to predict or control).
“Newsguard”...? OK, this has gotten too crazy for me or even for a dystopian movie.
Of course this is nothing more than State control of information and, therefore, opinions...only the ‘right’ ones allowed.
It’s so transparent it’s pathetic.
They should just call them the deputy Stasi and be done with it.
Bkmk
exactly
Keep your children grandchildren nieces and nephews and any other child you care about out of government schoools
Funny how we never heard anybody in any positions of power screaming about misinformation before the internet and social media.
When people got their news from newspapers and magazines, which they could either subscribe to or buy at a local newsstand or bookstore, mass censorship was impossible.
But now it’s easy to prevent information from coming to light. So because they now have the means to censor, all of the sudden, misinformation is a bad problem that requires immediate attention.
Good.... they need to put their names on a list. That way they’ll be the first to fire and get rid of when parents start becoming school board members.
The unions need to be destroyed and parents need to do what Reagan did to the Air Traffic Controllers when they went on strike.
They always yap about .... “We could do other things but we chose to be a teacher.... “ yeah right... 3rd grade math teacher, PE teachers, all the other little bureaucrats can’t do crap so they settled on working 9 months out of the year, getting a pension and benefits without having to produce anything of value. Most of the students that graduate from public schools have a hard time defining what a republic is, what are our Bill of Rights, doing basic math, writing a paragraph, cursive writing, or basic geography of the United States and the world.....
So teachers have options.... sure.... Bullsh#t... absolute Bullsh#t.
Yes mine are in private school. But that’s not foolproof either. Teachers are generalists who rely on content experts, especially for social studies. Caught a consultant red headed spewing lies about Trump. He was annoyed that I found out about him. Had to tell my kids that “No, Trump did not work with Russia to win the 2016 election”
Sadly our school even though Christian still adheres to climate change nonsense.
If I had kids these days I would home school them.
You can no longer trust anyone to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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