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NewsGuard, the purportedly impartial media rating service that has created a blacklist of disfavored news organization, boasted of its ties to the intelligence community and to other arms of the federal government in a pitch to Twitter before Elon Musk bought the company.
Former city and state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, 83, whose career ended after being ensnared in corruption scandals, died Thursday morning after a long illness, his family announced.
Consortium News, a news website focused on foreign policy founded by an award-winning journalist who helped break the Iran-Contra story in the 1980s, is suing NewsGuard and the U.S. government over alleged collaboration to suppress its reporting, which is critical of U.S. foreign policy.
NewsGuard says it will remain "apolitical" in the aftermath of the deadly terror attack by Hamas militants against Israel, and the latter's response — though it continues to give a clean bill of health to the New York Times, which engaged in stealth edits on key stories about the conflict.
For some, it's time to start thinking about holiday gift shopping.