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Meet NewsGuard: The Government-Backed Censorship Tool Billed As An Arbiter Of Truth BY: LEE FANG | NOVEMBER 15, 2023 Read more at https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/15/meet-newsguard-the-government-backed-censorship-tool-billed-as-an-arbiter-of-truth/ LEE FANG MORE ARTICLES In May 2021, L. Gordon Crovitz, a media executive turned start-up investor, pitched Twitter executives on a powerful censorship tool. In an exchange that came to light in the…
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"NewsGuard is clearly in the business of censoring the truth," noted Dr. Joseph Mercola, a gadfly voice whose website was ranked as misinformation by NewsGuard after it published reports about COVID-19's potential origin from a lab in Wuhan, China.
NewsGuard’s ultimately unsuccessful pitch sheds light on one aspect of a growing effort by governments around the world to police speech.
With government contracts and corporate backers, NewsGuard seeks to monetize the work of reshaping the internet.