NewsGuard CEO:  Fox News, OANN Would Have Called Moon Landing ‘Fraud’

February 25th, 2022 8:16 PM

NewsGuard CEO Steven Brill this week painted his company as a white knight that can save impressionable dupes from repeating another Jan. 6 “insurrection,” and said Fox News and OANN traffic in conspiracy theories.

NewsGuard Rates Planned Parenthood Credible, Slams Pro-Life Sites

February 25th, 2022 9:58 AM

Online “credibility” arbiter NewsGuard strongly favors an organization that kills babies, declaring abortion giant Planned Parenthood credible. Meanwhile, the rating firm gave very negative ratings to three pro-life outlets.

NewsGuard GM Minimizes Steele Dossier, Champions ‘100’ BuzzFeed Rating

February 22nd, 2022 10:46 AM

NewsGuard has reaffirmed its perfect rating of BuzzFeed News, even though the outlet continues to host the bogus Steele dossier on its website.

BuzzFeed COMPLAINS About Lack of Censorship in Meta’s VR Metaverse

February 15th, 2022 4:51 PM

A censor every hour to help liberal media tyrants keep power? If media outlet BuzzFeed gets its way, censorship could be more invasive in the metaverse even than on current social media platforms.

NewsGuard Rates Newsmax, LifeNews Less Credible than Chinese Media

February 2nd, 2022 11:01 AM

Self-appointed online “credibility” arbiter NewsGuard rates several U.S. media outlets as less reliable than several Chinese Communist Party-controlled state media outlets.

NewsGuard Offers Lame Rebuttal to MRC Study Exposing Left-Wing Bias

February 1st, 2022 8:17 AM

The leftist ratings firm NewsGuard criticized a Media Research Center study of the site’s ratings, calling it “fundamentally flawed.” 

Anti-Free Speech Left Celebrates Dan Bongino’s YouTube Ban

January 27th, 2022 1:32 PM

The anti-free speech left is all but breaking out the champagne and party hats over YouTube’s permanent ban of Fox News host Dan Bongino.

Biased NewsGuard Partners With Teachers’ Union to Brainwash K-12 Kids

January 26th, 2022 1:53 PM

Biased online ratings firm NewsGuard is taking its information war to schoolchildren through a deal made with the American Federation of Teachers. School children depend on the internet for homework help. NewsGuard is now stepping in to “filter” online sources for so-called “misinformation.” The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union is buying NewsGuard licenses for its 1.7 million member…

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CNN's Brian Stelter Becomes Groupie for Leftist NewsGuard

January 17th, 2022 5:34 PM

CNN’s Reliable Sources anchor Brian Stelter slobbered over the leftist website ratings firm NewsGuard as some sort of paragon of journalistic virtue. Stelter fawned in a Jan. 16 blog how NewsGuard announced that its business was “reliable enough to turn a profit.” But here was the senseless part: “Although there are many quibbles with specific rulings about certain sites, the results…

Outlets SLAM NewsGuard for Biased Report Boosting Left-Wing News

January 12th, 2022 1:15 PM

The left-wing media’s Ministry of Truth — website ratings firm NewsGuard — is at it again, slamming conservative news outlets while promoting liberal rags. And conservative leaders are furious.

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CensorTrack with TR: Really? Liberal Sites Score 93% Accuracy?!

December 29th, 2021 12:00 PM

It’s Episode Eighteen of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we’re talking about another attack on conservative speech — NewsGuard’s rating system, which routinely gives right-wing sites lower credibility ratings than leftist sites.

NewsGuard Partnership Mires Advertisers in Censorship

December 20th, 2021 3:44 PM

Leftist media ratings company NewsGuard has struck another partnership to censor news outlets and publishers the platform deems objectionable. This time, the suppression will affect outlets that use a specific ad platform.

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STUDY: Analysis Shows NewsGuard Ratings Heavily Favor Left

December 13th, 2021 7:24 AM

A new analysis reveals the extraordinary left-wing bias of website ratings firm NewsGuard, which should concern every American given that it is expanding its reach into cable and broadcast TV news. Liberal outlets were rated 27 points higher on average than news organizations on the right.

Leftist NewsGuard Strikes Deal to Rate Cable & Broadcast TV News

December 3rd, 2021 1:12 PM

The leftist firm NewsGuard is going from skewing its rating system to favor left-wing websites to monitoring cable and broadcast TV news in an apparent attempt to become the new ministry of truth.