NewsGuard

Fake FactChecker that offer red/green light on whole institutions (based on politics), instead of individual articles.

Fake FactChecker that offer red/green light on whole institutions (based on politics), instead of individual articles. It plugs into browsers and offers "FakeNews" indicator, based on establishment (and leftism), not based on the actual articles contents or quality. The same story can flip colors based on which aggregator is reporting it, whether it is correct or not.

ℹ️ Info

~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2019-01-28

Facts[edit | edit source]

🗒️ Note:
Wikipedia sort of does a lie of omission, by not pointing out any criticism of the technology or implementation. Despite the obviousness that the technology currently favors left wing outlets, and the huge flaws of the technology itself: by assuming sites and not articles are the correct fidelity on what to trust.

NewsGuard Technologies was founded in 2018 by Steven Brill (left of center SJW journalist), and L. Gordon Crovitz (who is not).
The NewsGuard extension is installed in browsers and warns users when they view content from "FakeNews" websites -- but they segregate not by quality/reliability of the article, but by establishment (left leaning MSM) and everything else (right or centrist).
Since they go by website and not story, the same exact story can be flagged credible or not, depending on who is re-posting it.
CBS is fine, despite Dan Rather, and a rich history of FakeNews.
CNN is an even lousier News organization, but is green lit, entirely -- so every story shows up fine -- despite hundreds of FakeNews stories in the last few years.
MSNBC? Same.
FoxNews, Breitbart, Drudge (an aggregator) or The Daily Wire -- those places get red-flagged for having less losers in their portfolio? Drudge doesn't even write stories, it just links them from elsewhere: how is that not credible?
WikiLeaks gets a remark, but no one has ever shown a single thing they published that was not 100% accurate. (They're publishing things like other people's emails and documents: which might be misleading without context, but they're still 100% accurate)

Examples[edit | edit source]

Here are a few examples of their Green Check (organizations that get a green light), so stale disproven hoaxes still show up as OK, despite being long debunked:

2016.12.31 Russians hack our power grid - Amid rising tension over the DNC's fake Trump Russian Collusion narrative, WaPo (Ellen Nakashima and Juliet Eilperin) invented that the Russians were also responsible for a Vermont PowerGrid attack. The Utility denied the claim, and WaPo tries to blame them, and claims they'd contacted them, and rewrites the story... but botches the rewrite as well. And it appears that they lied about trying to contact the power companies, and hadn't done their due diligence.
NewsGuard Tim Pool - NewsGuard repeatedly made inaccurate statements about Timcast.com, and only corrected a fraction of them. It gives his site a 84/100 and USAToday a 100/100 even though 23 stories were fabricated and had to be withdrawn by USAToday.
NewsGuard vs MRC - MRC did a study and found NewsGuard rates left leaning outfits 93, and right leaning outfits 66. You either believe that right leaning outfits are sloppy (despite the fact that they're often better than left wing outfits, because left wing outfits don't hold left wing outfits to the same standards), or you recognize there's bias.
Trump ordered Cohen to lie to investigators - Trump had ordered his Attorney (Michael Cohen) to lie to investigators, or so the Press Reported. This set off the Democrat's impeachment Tourettes. Never mind that it was implausible, from an unreliable author, anonymously sourced, and made no sense. FakeNews reported it. Mueller later admitted it was bullshit. And after a lot of fanfare, it went away.
UVA Rape on Campus - 💩 Rolling Stone published "A Rape on Campus" that describes a purported gang rape of Jackie Coakley by 7 frat brothers (Phi Kappa Psi) at the University of Virginia (UVA), as part of an initiation rite. This fed a false "Campus Rape" lynch-mob that suspended the fraternity, vandalized their FratHouse, and impugned the character of many innocents: who sued and won.

In the mean time, Organizations that have never had fuck-ups nearly that bad, are given warnings.

Conclusion[edit | edit source]

The left will call it racism if you blanket at entire race, sexism if you do the same with a gender, or will cry foul if everyone in the DNC is stained with their long history of racism (ties with the KKK, BLM, Antifa, Farrakhan, etc). But if they do it to right of center News outlets or blogs, that's fine. Anyone that supports this sham is a fool or a tool.

🔗 More

Fake News
While the term goes back 100 years, the history is summed up well by Sharyl Attkisson.

Wikipedia
Wikipedia is both hit and miss. Most articles are pretty good, but there's a leftist bias amongst too many articles.

TBD
List all the articles that have work to be done on them.

Microsoft
Microsoft is a surprisingly good company now... but it wasn't always that way.

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Tags: FakeNews Wikipedia TBD Microsoft Orgnanizations