RELATED-—Musk’s X Issues Warning About NewsGuard
Newsmax ^ | Thursday, 23 November 2023 | Luca Cacciatore Michael Katz
FR Posted on 11/23/2023, 9:46:59 PM by cabojoe
Elon Musk’s social media platform X, issued a new warning Wednesday about the left-wing ratings company NewsGuard. In a post on X he said his 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.
Five Reasons Congress Should Strip Funding from Leftist NewsGuard
NewsBusters ^ | 11/21/2023 | Joseph Vazquez
FR Posted on 11/21/2023, 5:06:41 PM by JV3MRC
Leftist internet traffic cop NewsGuard is the farthest thing from being the unbiased media referee it purports to be. It is a government-funded operation designed to attack right-leaning media by going after their advertiser funding.......and to silence conservatives.
There are at least five core reasons why Congress should strip funding from NewsGuard in the latest National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) since it received a $750,000 taxpayer-funded grant from the Department of Defense. The state funding of a leftist, so-called journalism gatekeeper that deceptively bills itself as “apolitical” is case in point. Such efforts by the government to censor media it does not approve of through the funding of a private organization is on its face unconstitutional. Moreover, NewsGuard’s inherent bias against right-leaning media and rubber-stamping of left-wing publications, its financing by special interests that compromise its objectivity, its apparent support of a communist Chinese government propaganda arm and its open celebration of its collusion with government make it little more than an Orwellian Ministry of Truth of the first magnitude.
Couple all that with the MRC’s analysis across two studies on NewsGuard’s media ratings and “Nutrition Labels” showing how the so-called media ratings firm is nothing more than a leftist political tool intended to silence the right and the problem becomes all too clear. It’s time for America’s legislators to finally take action.
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