NewsGuard Sells Government-Funded Censorship Tool
The for-profit censorship giant NewsGuard is now selling its Misinformation Fingerprints technology to private companies to silence Americans speech technology the federal government helped NewsGuard develop to the tune of nearly $750,000 in taxpayer funding. So while NewsGuard is now making headlines for trying to take down Elon Musk s X, the bigger story concerns the federal government s funding of the censorship-industrial complex.
NewsGuard launched a Thanksgiving-week attack on the social media company former known as Twitter, claiming some 200 ads from prominent advertisers appeared on feeds of users spreading lies about the Israel-Hamas war. Elon Musk returned fire, calling NewsGuard a propaganda shop that uses these reports to pressure companies to buy their fact-checking services.
It s a profit over any principle model, the X owner countered.
The verbal sparring between Musk and NewsGuard is likely to continue for some time, but the war on free speech being waged by NewsGuard extends much beyond X and is being subsidized by our tax dollars.
Margot Cleveland.
Free speech in incompatible with their “Democracy.” Who is that political theorist who wrote about the ideology of “democritism”? She won’t find it easy to get a job, except maybe at Hillsdale.