Fake news front group “NewsGuard” exposed as a massive protection racket to promote fake narratives from official sources while censoring indy media
by: Vicki Batts
NaturalNews.com
Friday, February 15, 2019
NewsGuard Technologies promotes itself as a company bent on fighting “fake news” and allowing truth to prevail. The website claims the company will restore “trust and accountability” through its human-driven rating system. But as many critics have suspected, the onslaught of pro-NewsGuard propaganda is a ploy to deceive the public and normalize censorship. NewsGuard doesn’t care about the truthfulness of reporting; it is a shell company with the explicit purpose of silencing the independent media and securing the establishment’s place at the top of the journalism food chain.
In a new partnership with Microsoft, NewsGuard will be installed automatically with Microsoft’s web browser, Edge. And according to reports, NewsGuard wants to see its “technology” applied to every device sold in the United States. Mass censorship is on our doorsteps, and virtually every major news outlet in the U.S. is promoting it.
NewsGuard or NewsGoon?
NewsGuard is promoted as using “old school” journalism to fight fake news. The trained “analysts” who are also “experienced journalists” use a red light-green light rating system to flag news sites as “bad” or”good,” depending on the content. The “analysts” don’t just peruse web sites; NewsGuard, has reportedly contacted many sites for deeper conversation.
Steven Brill, NewsGuard co-founder, recently stated the U.K.’s Daily Mail, a well-known publication, received a “red” rating because an associate didn’t want to answer questions. This has prompted substantial concerns about NewsGuard’s integrity as a company.
NewsGuard can use all kinds of strong-arm tactics to attempt to silence their opposition. If a company tries to take a stand against censorship and refuses to cooperate with NewsGuard, they’ll simply be blacklisted themselves.
While NewsGuard has removed Daily Mail from the blacklist after much controversy, the company has made their position clear: Play ball, or kick rocks.
The NewsGuard system is patently flawed, being susceptible to both bias and corruption. For example, it was recently reported that a tee shirt sold by the Breitbart News Store was flagged as “fake news.”
Rating merchandise should be outside the scope of an organization that purportedly only targets news. But, perhaps that’s not really what NewsGuard is after.
Suppress truth, promote propaganda
Writing for Breitbart, senior correspondent Allum Bokhari reports that NewsGuard has given all the major news agencies a “green rating,” — even in light of the reprehensible Covington Catholic incident, which saw dozens of innocent high school students victimized by the corrupt and deeply biased mainstream media.
In contrast, most of the independent media has received “red” ratings.
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