Posted on 07/08/2025 8:12:25 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Britain's largest misinformation monitor and "fact-checker" went into bankruptcy, according to a report in the Times of London last week.
In the U.S., left-wing groups like NewsGuard and GDI have come under fierce criticism as de facto tools for censorship.
Logically, founded in 2016 by Cambridge engineering graduate Lyric Jain, aimed to combat "harmful and manipulative content" following high-profile events like the Brexit referendum and the U.S. presidential election.
A pivotal misstep was its decision to work with India's Karnataka state government's fact-checking unit, a move criticized by the Editors Guild of India and others for potentially enabling state censorship and threatening independent journalism.
Logically also faced backlash for its work with the U.K. government's Counter-Disinformation Unit during the COVID-19 pandemic, which free speech advocates criticized as an attempt to silence lockdown critics.
In the U.S., NewsGuard, like Logically, has drawn criticism for receiving government grants, which has fueled accusations of state-backed censorship.
NewsGuard has received millions in grant money from the Joint Research Centre of the European Union, the Global Engagement Center of the State Department, and the Defense Department's Cyber National Mission Force within U.S. Cyber Command.
At the same time, NewsGuard was accused of disproportionately targeting conservative voices, often critics of the Biden administration.
For profit NewsGuard was founded in 2018 by Steven Brill, a longtime Democrat activist and prolific donor who has backed dozens of liberal candidates including Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama.
His co-CEO of NewsGuard, Gordon Crovitz, describes himself as a Republican, but his wife is a leader in Human Rights Watch, an organization at the forefront of international efforts to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested under ICC charges.
Federal and state authorities are taking steps to limit NewsGuard's ability to use its rating services to promote censorship.
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USAID cut off.
BBC?......................
That’s another one that should be out of business.
Probably
There’s a reason the UK has a boob tube tax...
And “aid” to the “middleman” Ukraine has been vastly diminished… thus far fewer dollars to be redistributed.
Meh...tis but a scratch, is GCHQ still operational?
GCHQ still operational:
https://www.google.com/search?q=GCHQ&rlz=1CAPUVO_enUS1052US1052&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
GCHQ
https://www.gchq.gov.uk › information
Is GCHQ the same as NSA?
Following the Second World War, US and British intelligence have shared information as part of the UKUSA Agreement. The principal aspect of this is that GCHQ and its US equivalent, the National Security Agency (NSA), share technologies, infrastructure and information.
Thanks for this post !!
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