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Leftists have been trying for years to fool the public into rejecting the voices of those who dissent from their agenda by posing as neutral “fact-checkers” purporting to identify “fake news.” What they are really trying to do is not ensure the accuracy of news reporting at all, but to silence and destroy those who tell the truth about things they lie about or uncover what they want to conceal.
One of the foremost exponents of this ongoing scam is NewsGuard, a particularly sinister initiative of the hard-left self-appointed news arbiter Steven Brill. During the dark days of the Biden regime, which was the authoritarian threat that leftists pretend that Trump is, NewsGuard received $749,387 from the Department of Defense.
What possible benefit could a leftist propaganda outfit masquerading as a neutral fact-checking service have to the Department of Defense? Well, when the DOD was a corrupt and politicized government agency that was more concerned about defending the Biden regime from its political opponents than with defending the United States of America from its enemies, it likely found NewsGuard quite handy.
And NewsGuard is still at it, although you’d think that if Trump really were what the left claims him to be, it would have been shut down. NewsGuard contributing editor Madeline Roache emailed me on Friday morning, claiming that my website, Jihad Watch, had posted “false and misleading content,” assuming that NewsGuard has some actually recognized right to judge the accuracy of news sites, and asking for a phone call.
Good afternoon,
I’m writing from NewsGuard, a company that rates news and information websites for reliability. We assess each site based on nine apolitical journalistic criteria and assign a 0-100 trust score based on those criteria. Our rating process and criteria can be found here.
We are in the process of updating our rating of JihadWatch.org. As part of this process, we contact the publication being rated to seek comment on any potential issues we find and to give the site a chance to point us to any information we may have missed.
We had a few questions regarding some false and misleading content we found on the site, and the lack of information about the site’s ownership and financing.
Please let me know if we can arrange a call to discuss these questions further.
Best,
Madeline Roache
Contributing Editor, UK
NewsGuard Technologies
Here is my answer:
Hi Madeline. No, we can’t arrange a call.
I have a few questions for you, however:
1. NewsGuard is well known for not being objective, but rather for trying to stigmatize, demonize and destroy news sites that dissent from the left’s agenda. Are you personally, as an employee of NewsGuard, comfortable with this initiative, or is this just a job for you? To put it more simply, are you a committed authoritarian bent on destroying the freedom of speech, or just a useful idiot?
There is more. Read the rest here.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Great riposte, Robert!
Koshs Shadow says
If she does call, insist on permission to record and play the recording.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The point about the call is what he stated in his response:
So there is no reason for him to accept a call. Let them continue communicating by email, if she so chooses
As for NewsGuard, I’d be wary of their influencing what appears on the Edge browser courtesy Microsoft
Koshs Shadow says
I only use Edge for Microsoft sites, so I don’t see their “news” – or use MS NOWay
Edmund Carey says
The conversation would be interesting, if it happened, and appeared here. It’s a pity that no such conversation will take place. Only one potential conversationalist is interested.