Cultists Want To Shut Down Fake News Watchdog

The Washington Post reports:

When veteran newsmen L. Gordon Crovitz and Steven Brill started their news site rating company, they were prepared for the inevitable cries of bias from both sides.

What they didn’t anticipate was that NewsGuard, their company of some 50 employees, would become the target of congressional investigations and accusations from federal regulators that it was at the vanguard of a vast conspiracy to censor conservative views.

Brendan Carr, Trump’s pick to lead the FCC, accused the company of facilitating a “censorship cartel,” in a letter to tech platforms. Noting that key legal protections depend on tech executives operating “in good faith,” Carr continued: “It is in this context that I am writing to obtain information about your work with one specific organization — the Orwellian named NewsGuard.”

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Eleon Musk, who recently sued a different fake news watchdog out of existence and is also suing Media Matters, claims NewsGuard is a “propaganda shop.”

So much for free speech. Again.

The five lowest-ranked sites according to NewsGuard are the Epoch Times, OAN, Newsmax, Russia Today, and Gateway Pundit.

This company rates news sites’ credibility. No surprise, the right wants it stopped. And @elonmusk is probably apoplectic, because it’s the opposite of the disinformation explosion Musk mislabels as “citizen journalism.”

Follow @NewsGuardRating. https://t.co/Psi9KqEkOs

— Kristen Browde 🏳️‍⚧️🌈 (@ChrissieSeeB) December 24, 2024