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1.7 Million Teachers Will Receive NewsGuard Licenses to ‘Spot Disinformation’
Breitbart ^ | 26 Jan 2022 | ALLUM BOKHARI

Posted on 01/26/2022 2:53:43 PM PST by Mount Athos

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To: livius

I wonder if Gateway Pundit will get flagged.


21 posted on 01/26/2022 3:29:00 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why he would)
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To: Mount Athos

1.7 million new, licensed kommissars.


22 posted on 01/26/2022 3:31:55 PM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: cgbg

Nope and to be fair, most teachers are probably innocent because they are relying on text books and subject matter provided by 3rd parties. Just think about the 1930s and how text books on history and economics were very pro-Soviet.

Yeah would love to home school but both of us need a pay check and can’t afford to stay home and do that.

At least at the Christian school my kids are NOT taught about the “many holes” available for sexual activity. I recall in the 1980s the expert who came into to teach us about sex, spoke about some pretty deviant stuff.


23 posted on 01/26/2022 3:33:14 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Mount Athos

P R A V D A USA


24 posted on 01/26/2022 3:33:52 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: Mount Athos

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has always been a leftwing outfit. Their president once said something along the lines of “When kids start paying dues, then we’ll look out for the kids’ interests”.

If your kids attend a school with AFT teachers you are probably deep inside liberal territory, since that’s where they primarily operate.


25 posted on 01/26/2022 3:33:57 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: Sam Gamgee

Sadly our school even though Christian still adheres to climate change nonsense.

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get them out.

I have seen catholic schools become toxic around trans and homosexuals’ issues. Christian does not mean not marxist or leftist.


26 posted on 01/26/2022 3:36:41 PM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: Mount Athos

By calling it a “license” they are trying to trick people into believing it is official government authorization rather than a fraudulent play card from a biased leftwingnut political activist group.


27 posted on 01/26/2022 3:39:49 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Chickensoup

The difference is evangelical schools here hire Christians. The Catholic Schools hire anyone. They do not require a statement of faith.

I think the most harmful thing to the brains of my children is entertainment media. There is so much LGBT nonsense. Just about every show has a token gay situation. My girls were shocked when I stated that there is no way that beautiful woman on Chicago Fire would be gay. “Gay women are ugly” I told them to even more shock.


28 posted on 01/26/2022 3:43:40 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Mount Athos

“browser extension”

Good tech admins will have all extensions blocked except those requested and approved.


29 posted on 01/26/2022 3:52:23 PM PST by KEVLAR ( )
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To: Mount Athos

30 posted on 01/26/2022 3:56:43 PM PST by Gritty (The hill you are on right now is the hill you are going to die on! - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 01/23/22)
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To: Vaquero

I’d say that 99% of today’s students…and 50% of today’s teachers don’t even know who that is (or, what he did) 🙃


31 posted on 01/26/2022 4:00:05 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: Sam Gamgee

actually all schools have some jerks, both christian denominations as well as others.

No child should be on screens until late teens. Brain development suffers. A movie night once a week. very little computer time in homeschooling. no internet.


32 posted on 01/26/2022 4:01:08 PM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: Mount Athos
WE MUST GUARD THE NEWS THAT YOU RECEIVE FROM THOSE THAT MIGHT TELL YOU DIFFERENT,,,,LIKE YOUR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS.

ESPSCIALLY REPUBLICAN UNCLES AND AUNTS....AND WHITE PEOPLE.

NEWSGUARD IS HERE FOR YOU!!!

33 posted on 01/26/2022 4:06:43 PM PST by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: Mount Athos

Propaganda in it’s purist form. The teachers should throw this junk our the moment they get them. Of course they won’t because they believe in the State as their savior.


34 posted on 01/26/2022 4:06:45 PM PST by JoJo354 (JUST SAY NO to covid vaxx!)
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To: Mount Athos

https://www.newsguardtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/WHO-HealthGuard.pdf

World Health Organization

BACKGROUND
The World Health Organization’s Digital Channels team
collaborates with the technology industry to help keep
communities everywhere safe and informed during the
COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

PROBLEM
Misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines proliferated
throughout the pandemic. To inform targeted approaches to
countering misinformation, platforms and policymakers needed
accurate, timely insights on the false claims circulating and the
bad actors spreading those claims.

NEWSGUARD’S SOLUTION
Throughout the pandemic, NewsGuard has provided the WHO
with reports highlighting the top COVID and vaccine myths
circulating across the major social platforms, the sources
responsible for advancing those claims, and the groups on which
those claims thrive. These reports are based on NewsGuard’s
health-focused Misinformation Fingerprints™ data and its
Reliability Ratings of health misinformation websites. Using
these insights, the WHO alerts the social media platforms of the
hoaxes detected by NewsGuard, prompting them to take down
posts or flag them as unreliable.
“Though health misinformation circulates online, it causes real
life consequences. We must put tools in the hands of people
everywhere so they can better assess the credibility of health
information online in order to make informed health choices
in their life. NewsGuard has been instrumental in helping WHO
and partners keep people safe by identifying and combating
online COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation.”

- Andy Pattison, Head of the World Health Organization’s
Digital Channels Team

New York Times
Mr. Pattison said he had a staff of only five, although the agency subscribes to NewsGuard, a service that hunts for new rumors springing up on the internet. His staff examines NewsGuard alerts, consults medical experts, posts accurate information on the W.H.O. website and then calls its contacts at social media agencies and asks them to link to it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/health/wikipedia-who-coronavirus-health.html

Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join to Combat Covid-19 Misinformation
The health agency will license much of its material to the online encyclopedia, allowing the information to be reposted widely into almost 200 languages.


35 posted on 01/26/2022 4:18:35 PM PST by maggief
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https://www.newsguardtech.com/solutions/misinformation-fingerprints/

Misinformation Fingerprints

Leveraging its bird’s eye view of the digital information environment, NewsGuard extracts and catalogues the top misinformation narratives spreading online. NewsGuard provides data about each narrative in machine-readable format—such as example language, links containing the false claim, and related keywords and hashtags. The Misinformation Fingerprints can be used as data seeds for existing AI/Social Listening tools to trace false claims across the internet and social media or can be used by human analysts to understand mis- and disinformation risks.

Purpose-built for use by both human analysts and AI tools, NewsGuard’s Misinformation Fingerprints™ provide a continuously updated view of the digital information environment—and a powerful way to track narratives that are emerging and spreading online.

https://www.newsguardtech.com/industries/

NewsGuard’s Ratings and Misinformation Fingerprints™ enable a wide range of partners to combat misinformation in each market.

Digital Platforms
Arming platforms and content moderation teams with data and intelligence to protect users from online harms and control the spread of misinformation.

Advertising Industry
Helping advertisers redirect ad spend away from purveyors of misinformation and towards sources of quality journalism.

Security and Defense
Using human intelligence and AI to help defense agencies and cybersecurity firms track and combat disinformation and extremism.

News Aggregators
Guiding aggregation services as they work to curate news and information from publishers of the highest caliber.

Researcher
Providing detailed datasets about online source credibility to facilitate cutting-edge research about misinformation and disinformation.

Schools and Libraries
Offering a media literacy tool to help guide students and library patrons through the overwhelming landscape of online news and information.

Broadband and Mobile Providers
Enabling internet and mobile providers to deliver a safer, trustworthy internet to the households they serve.

Healthcare
Protecting patients, doctors, hospital systems, and others from dangerous medical misinformation.


36 posted on 01/26/2022 4:29:57 PM PST by maggief
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To: Mount Athos

When you see mass censorship in a county, it’s the truth that’s being supressed.


37 posted on 01/26/2022 4:43:48 PM PST by fruser1
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To: Mount Athos

Always the leftist control freaks attempting to tell all what to think and what the truth is according to them.

Spit*


38 posted on 01/26/2022 4:49:21 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Mount Athos

Can you imagine these misfits handing out licenses to their newly created, “News Police”, which implies they have some kind of authority or official capacity?

The Communist have the lunatic community all excited about this. They all want to be news cops!


39 posted on 01/26/2022 4:57:40 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Sam Gamgee

“most teachers are probably innocent because they are relying on text books and subject matter provided by 3rd parties”

I bet the Nanzi teachers were pretty innocent as well—relying on text books and subject matter provided by 3rd parties.

You really do not want to go there...


40 posted on 01/26/2022 5:17:54 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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