NewsGuard rates news sites’ credibility. The right wants it stopped.
When veteran newsmen L. Gordon Crovitz and Steven Brill started their news site rating company, they were prepared for the inevitable cries of bias from both sides. What they didn’t anticipate was that NewsGuard, their company of some 50 employees, would become the target of congressional investigations and accusations from federal regulators that it was at the vanguard of a vast conspiracy to censor conservative views. Since 2018, NewsGuard has built a business offering advertisers nonpartisan assessments of online publishers — backed by a team of journalists who assess which sites are reputable and which can’t be trusted. It uses a slate of nine standard criteria, such as whether a site corrects errors or discloses its ownership and financing, to produce a zero to 100 percent rating.
But conservatives now question the company’s premise. Brendan Carr, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, accused the company of facilitating a “censorship cartel,” in a November letter to leading tech platforms. Noting that key legal protections depend on tech executives operating “in good faith,” Carr continued: “It is in this context that I am writing to obtain information about your work with one specific organization — the Orwellian named NewsGuard.”
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 25, 2024 12:02 AM
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WaPo article so can not link
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 24, 2024 6:09 PM
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The joke of all this is that none of the right wing "news" sources are being silenced. They just don't want to be called on their bullshit.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | December 24, 2024 6:12 PM
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As usual, the right weaponizes government against their perceived enemies—all on tax dollars
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 24, 2024 6:16 PM
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The right won't stop until they get state run media, like in shithole Mother Russia.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 24, 2024 6:18 PM
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[quote] WaPo article so can not link
Since when?
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | December 24, 2024 6:21 PM
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Newsguard has issues of its own…
NewsGuard's founders cautioned that its "Nutrition Label" should not be treated as an endorsement equivalent to the nutrition facts label from the Food and Drug Administration.[11] As of June 2024, Newsguard rated Fox News at 69.5, Breitbart News at 49.5, the The New Republic at 92.5, Mother Jones at 69.5, and The Washington Post at 100.[25] It also recently downgraded the The New York Times from 100 to 87.5 for not distinguishing clearly enough between opinion and fact.[25] CEO L. Gordon Crovitz said in 2024, "Under NewsGuard's apolitical rating system, many conservative outlets outscore similar left-leaning brands: The Daily Caller outscores The Daily Beast, the Daily Wire outscores the Daily Kos, Fox News outscores MSNBC and The Wall Street Journal outscores the New York Times."[2] Sites that had previously ignored the extension, such as MailOnline, objected to being listed as unreliable.[26] The decision to list MailOnline as unreliable was reversed in 2019, and NewsGuard admitted they were wrong on some counts.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 24, 2024 6:23 PM
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NewsGuard says Fox News outscores MSNBC in credibility.
OP, quit wasting our time.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 24, 2024 6:24 PM
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I’ll show you what isn’t credible. Calling me not credible!
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 24, 2024 7:55 PM
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I looked up some polling of YouGov about the most trusted news source in the US this year. It is... drum roll... The Weather Channel. I guess we can still all agree on the weather - as long as we don't talk about climate of course.
Follow-ups: BBC, PBS, The Wall Street Journal.
On the bottom is National Enquirer as expected. Comedy Central is listed as the fourth least trustworthy news source. Will Fox News appear on the bottom of the funniest comedy channels?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 25, 2024 12:02 AM
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