Posted on 11/23/2023 6:46:59 PM PST by cabojoe
Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, issued a new warning Wednesday about the left-wing ratings company NewsGuard. In a post on the site, X said it was the latest organization to be targeted by NewsGuard, which has systematically targeted conservative media. "NewsGuard is about to publish a 'report' on misinformation on X. As a for-profit company, they will only share the data that underpins their purported research if you pay," X explained. X then highlighted NewsGuard's strategy in going after the platform — the same strategy it has employed on dozens of other companies. NewsGuard "uses these reports to pressure companies to buy their 'fact-checking' services. It's a profit over any principle model," X said.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Thanks Liz and Mewzilla. If you search FR you will find that NewsGuard is being used to discredit conservative Youtubers and Vloggers actively here, quite unfairly. Thanks again!
Musk wasn’t kidding when he said after he took over that Twitter was a total tool of the government. He’s lucky he’s rich and famous enough, unlike the rest of us, to not just be killed in their sleep.
I’m still banned on Twitter.
I wonder how many conservatives still are.
ThatUmBrellaGuy, who I’ve watched a lot lately, also mentions that Twitter still shadow bans and worse. So you can only give Musk partial credit here.
Unruly social media:
<><> NewsGuard provides credibility ratings
<><>detailed “Nutrition Labels” for thousands of news and information sources.
<><>NewsGuard rates news and information sources
<><>they access 95% of online engagement
<><>surveiling across the US, UK, Canada, Germany, France, and Italy.
NewsGuard is conducted by “trained journalists” using nine “apolitical” criteria of journo practices:
<><>whether a news source repeatedly publishes “false” content,
<><>whether it regularly corrects or clarifies errors,
<><>and whether it avoids “deceptive” headlines.
Based on the criteria, each source receives
<><>an overall NewsGuard “trust rating score of 0-100,”
<><> scored on each of the nine “journalistic” criteria,
<><>a detailed “Nutrition Label” explaining the rating
<><>and provides examples of the site’s editorial practices.
Advertisers, advertising agencies and advertising tech companies license NewsGuard’s ratings
to direct their programmatic advertising toward “legitimate” journalism and “avoid misinformation.”
For more info, and to download the browser extension
and review the ratings process, visit newsguardtech.com.
OMG.......a Bidenesque work in progress to silence opponents.
Liz, the POTATUS is just a stooge, isn’t he.
And the US is not the only country now ruled by its Deep State.
Why is X always followed by “formerly known as Twitter”
Are there that many idiots still out there?
On Sept 7, 2021, the U.S. Dept of Defense gave $749,387 tax dollars to Newsguard Technologies
<><>a private service that scores media outlets on “reliability” and “trust.”
<><>Roughly 40,000 subscribers buy Newsguard subscriptions,
<><>a system of “Nutrition Labels” supposedly emphasizing “safe” content.
<><>Newsguard’s customers include universities and libraries,
<><>users are presented with warning labels as follows
<><>”CBS is great” and “Tucker Carlson is dangerous.”
CONTACT CONGRESS
U.S. House of Representatives:
* Telephone: 202-225-3121
* Website: http://www.house.gov/
U.S. Senate:
* Telephone: 202-224-3121
* Website: http://www.senate.gov/
MESSAGE Americans’ tax dollars are being confiscated by NewsGuard Technologies
<><>this is in violation of Consumer Protection Law,
<><>and Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act,
<><>laws and rules that protects consumers from unfair business practices.
I am with those that think Biden is always in full control. Sure he shows
his age, but he knows exactly what he is doing and is in full control.
When you step back, you begin to see all of Biden’s tricks.
He is an actor-——acting “infirmed” allows him to avoid questions WRT the chaos he’s caused.
And when his wrong-doing rears its ugly head, well, golly gee.......
Who is going to be so callous as to penalize this demented oldster?
Especially an old guy with a “surviving” son “struggling” with addictions.
Biden knows it’s good to be a liberal Dem:
<><>you always feel “real good” about yourself
<><>You get to blame everyone for everything
<><>You take no responsibility for anything,
<><>You deem everything a crisis
<><>You get to label everyone against you as “extremists”
<><>You get all of your positions and activities defended by the suck-up media,
<><>The media worships you even when you change positions
<><>If you head a Crime Family in the process, like Biden, you also get very rich.
“I am with those that think Biden is always in full control. ... he knows exactly what he is doing and is in full control”
Could be. Like that Gigante mobster.
Excellent point.
Fox’s Gutfeld explained that these self-serving “media watchdogs” like NewsGuard and MMFA are nothing more than vindictive Bidenesque hatemongers that seek to silence anyone who is not on the left.........using tax dollars.
Thank goodness a giant like Elon Musk is taking on these federally funded mental midgets.
Liz, yes, the guy is so crooked he could sleep on a corkscrew, but he’s in late stage dementia.
He likely hasn’t been competent for quite a while.
That’s why Deep State installed him.
The POTATUS hasn’t been running anything.
The people who installed him have been calling the shots.
And it says something about Deep State’s paranoia level that the only guy they’d allow to front for them is a dementia patient.
That's because he's an idiot
I most certainly do agree, Biden does have Deep State cronies weighing in on policy........
but his “Dementia Act” is also a ploy that serves to protect their evil backsides from scrutiny.
Liz, I’ve cared for loved ones with various forms of dementia for most of my adult life.
The POTATUS ain’t faking it.
And Deep State wouldn’t have installed him if he was sound mind.
Deep State would not have installed Biden if he was of sound mind......snx.
Last thing they want is Biden interfering in their plans to take down America.
They’ve had to slap him down many times when he (or drJill or Hunter) had a “brilliant” idea.
Joe Biden had only one event scheduled on Tuesday — before he fled the Deep State to a indulgent Thanksgiving vacation on Nantucket Island,
He was supposed to let worried parents know the “progress” his admin was making WRT dealing with the deadly fentanyl problem.....which according to Biden has nothing to do w/ drug cartels at the “secure” border.
He didn’t seem to understand China’s involvement, as he dutifully obeyed Deep State by lifting sanctions on a blacklisted forensics lab in exchange for Xi saying they would do more to track the flow of chemicals for fentanyl.
As Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) said, that was a bit like “thanking the arsonist.”
But Biden made a huge gaffe (advised by crackhead Hunter?) that had the Deep State rushing to clean up.....he called on Congress to make fentanyl an illicit street drug... “Schedule 1 drug”.......a profitable drug dealer item.
Fentanyl is currently a Schedule II drug which means it can be prescribed for legitimate medical use.
Ol’ Joe’s lolling around Nantucket billionaires again.
But he’s no ordinary Joe: A look at Lunchbucket Biden’s
$84M (est) in free vacations w/ some of America’s richest people
nypost.com, by Mary K. Jacob, Published Nov. 22, 2023
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Biden faces backlash for unreported vacations
These billion dollar vacation escapades paint a picture of Biden indulgence — and they haven’t escaped scrutiny. Biden has faced backlash for failing to list these stays as gifts on his financial disclosure forms, raising ethical eyebrows and drawing comparisons to the recent scrutiny of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Reports in May raised issue with three beach getaways.
These undisclosed retreats, provided by affluent and politically linked hosts, sparked allegations of circumventing transparency norms.
The criticism escalated when ethics experts like Walter Shaub and Richard Painter, with experience spanning multiple administrations, highlighted the necessity of divulging such stays.
Painter told The Post that any gratis stay, especially if the homeowner isn’t present, should be meticulously disclosed, a sentiment echoed by Shaub, the former head of the Office of Government Ethics under Obama.
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Many pics and elaborate details of the Biden’s multiple “vacations” at homes of billionaire Dems here:
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