NewsGuard
is het nieuwste wapen waarmee de VS overheid, haar geheime diensten,
het militair-industrieel complex, oligarchen, de grote
(corrupte) bedrijven, de financiële sector en dan m.n. de banken, de farmaceutische maffia en uiteraard
de reguliere massamedia de bevolking verder willen manipuleren en waarmee de
alternatieve media de oorlog wordt verklaard….. Sterker nog:
vertegenwoordigers van deze organisaties/bedrijven zijn verbonden aan
NewsGuard…..
NewsGuard
wordt als het straks tegenzit standaard als app ingebouwd in alle
computers en smartphones die in de VS of door VS bedrijven worden
geproduceerd….. Sterker nog Microsoft gebruikt deze app al….
Met
platforms als Facebook en Twitter, die nu al op grote schaal accounts
verwijderen, is de toekomst klaar voor grootschalige
geschiedvervalsing en het brengen van propaganda op een schaal waar
zelfs Goebbels niet van durfde dromen….. Nu al wordt SafeGuard gebruikt door openbare bibliotheken, scholen en universiteiten in de
VS……
Het
zal je niet verbazen dat NewsGuard uiteraard geen moeite heeft met
fake news (nepnieuws) en desinformatie in de reguliere massamedia,
zoals die op CNN en de Washington Post (WaPo), waar aantoonbaar een groot aantal kul
verhalen werden gebracht, waarvoor deze ‘fake news’ organen nooit een rectificatie plaatsten, alles zonder daar ook maar enige kritiek voor te
hebben gekregen van NewsGuard…… Waar collega ‘s van deze VS nieuwsmedia met grote graagte de leugens van deze twee hebben geholpen door verdere verspreiding van die leugens…… (zoals je begrijpt geldt dit ook voor de rest van de westerse massamedia)
Het voorgaande is niet zo vreemd als je ziet dat de reguliere massamedia in handen zijn van oligarchen en grote investeringsgroepen, groepen die het grootste belang hebben bij het bewaren van de huidige status quo en het opjagen van winsten met propaganda, zoals die voor de wapenfabrikanten, waaronder ik ook de fabrikanten reken die rollend, varend en vliegens oorlogstuig produceren…..
Overigens zijn ook publieke zendgemachtigden al lang niet meer onafhankelijk, ze worden grotendeels door de staat betaald en je weet het: wiens brood men eet diens woord men spreekt!! (klik voor de gein op het label NOS, direct onder dit bericht)
Schokkend te lezen dat het American Enterprise Institute (AEI) al 4 jaar voor 911 pleitte voor een nieuws Pearl Harbour, om meer steun te verkrijgen voor het militaire apparaat en de terreur die het in het buitenland uitoefent (alleen deze eeuw al meer dan 2,5 moorden….)…..
Lees
het uitstekende relaas van Whitney Webb over griezelorganisatie NewsGuard,
die gegarandeerd ook in de rest van het westen zal worden geïntroduceerd, althans als dat nog nodig is, nadat bedrijven als
Microsoft de NewsGuard app al hebben overgenomen……. (let op: als je gisteren mijn bericht met de volgende titel hebt gelezen: ‘Britse militaire geheime dienst bedient zich van moddergooien en andere manipulaties om Europese en VS politiek te manipuleren, zo blijkt uit gelekte documenten‘, op basis van een artikel van William Blumenthal en Mark Ames, zal het je opvallen dat een paar afbeeldingen gebruikt door Webb, een dag eerder door Blumenthal en Ames in hun artikel werden gebruikt, zoals Webb ook een paar kleine delen overnam van de tekst daarbij)
NewsGuard
Launches War on Alternative Media
January
9, 2019 at 10:39 pm
Written
by Whitney
Webb
(MPN) —
Soon after the social media “purge” of independent media sites
and pages this past October, a top neoconservative insider — Jamie
Fly — was
caught stating
that the mass deletion of anti-establishment and anti-war pages on
Facebook and Twitter was “just the beginning” of a concerted
effort by the U.S. government and powerful corporations to silence
online dissent within the United States and beyond.
While
a few, relatively uneventful months in the online news sphere have
come and gone since Fly made this ominous warning, it appears that
the neoconservatives and other standard bearers of the
military-industrial complex and the U.S. oligarchy are now poised to
let loose their latest digital offensive against independent media
outlets that seek to expose wrongdoing in both the private and public
sectors.
As MintPress
News Editor-in-Chief
Mnar Muhawesh recently
wrote, MintPress was
informed that it was under review by an organization called Newsguard
Technologies, which described itself to MintPress as
simply a “news rating agency” and asked Muhawesh to comment on a
series of allegations, several of which were blatantly untrue.
However, further examination of this organization reveals that it is
funded by and deeply connected to the U.S. government,
neo-conservatives, and powerful monied interests, all of whom have
been working overtime since the 2016 election to silence dissent to
American forever-wars and corporate-led oligarchy.
More
troubling still, Newsguard — by virtue of its deep connections to
government and Silicon Valley — is lobbying to have its rankings of
news sites installed by default on computers in U.S.
public libraries, schools, and universities as well as on all
smartphones and computers sold in the United States.
In
other words, as Newsguard’s project advances, it will soon become
almost impossible to avoid this neocon-approved news site’s ranking
systems on any technological device sold in the United States. Worse
still, if its efforts to quash dissenting voices in the U.S. are
successful, Newsguard promises that its next move will be to take its
system global.
Red
light, green light . . .
Newsguard
has received considerable attention in the mainstream media of late,
having been the subject of a slew
of articles in
the Washington
Post, the Hill, the
Boston Globe, Politico, Bloomberg, Wired, and
many others just over the past few months. Those articles portray
Newsguard as using “old-school journalism” to fight “fake news”
through its reliance on nine criteria allegedly intended to separate
the wheat from the chaff when it comes to online news.
Newsguard
separates sites it deems worthy and sites it considers unreliable by
using a color-coded rating — green, yellow, or red — and more
detailed “nutrition labels” regarding a site’s credibility or
lack thereof. Rankings are created by Newsguard’s team of “trained
analysts.” The color-coding system may remind some readers of the
color-coded terror threat-level warning system that was created after
9/11, making it worth noting that Tom Ridge, the former secretary of
Homeland Security (DHS) who oversaw the implementation of that system under
George W. Bush, is on Newsguard’s advisory
board.
As
Newsguard releases a new rating of a site, that rating automatically
spreads to all computers that have installed its news ranking browser
plug-in. That plug-in is currently available for free for the most
commonly used internet browsers. NewsGuard directly markets the
browser plug-in to libraries, schools and internet users in general.
According
to its
website,
Newsguard has rated more than 2,000 news and information sites.
However, it plans to take its ranking efforts much farther
by eventually
reviewing “the
7,500 most-read news and information websites in the U.S.—about 98
percent of news and information people read and share online” in
the United States in English.
A recent
Gallup study, which
was supported and funded by Newsguard as well as the Knight
Foundation (itself a major investor in Newsguard), stated that a
green rating increased users likelihood to share and read content
while a red rating decreased that likelihood. Specifically, it found
63 percent would be less likely to share news stories from red-rated
websites, and 56 percent would be more likely to share news from
green-rated websites, though the fact that Newsguard and one of its
top investors funded the poll makes it necessary to take these
findings with a grain of salt.
However,
some of the rankings Newsguard itself has publicized show that it is
manifestly uninterested in fighting “misinformation.” How else to
explain the fact that the Washington
Post and CNN both
received high scores even though both have written stories or made
statements that later proved to be entirely false? For example,
CNN falsely
claimed in
2016 that it was illegal for Americans to read WikiLeaks releases and
illegally colluded with the DNC to craft presidential debate
questions.
In
addition, in 2017, CNN published a
fake story that
a Russian bank linked to a close ally of President Donald Trump was
under Senate investigation. That same year, CNN was forced to retract
a report that the Trump campaign had been tipped off early about
WikiLeaks documents damaging to Hillary Clinton when it later learned
the alert was about material already publicly available.
The Washington
Post,
whose $600 million conflict
of interest with the CIA goes
unnoted by Newsguard, has also published false stories since the 2016
election, including one
article that
falsely claimed that “Russian hackers” had tapped into Vermont’s
electrical grid. It was later found that the grid itself was never
breached and the “hack” was only an isolated laptop with a minor
malware problem. Yet, such acts of journalistic malpractice are
apparently of little concern to Newsguard when those committing such
acts are big-name corporate media outlets.
Can you distinguish between propaganda and a free press? NewsGuard can help. #medialiteracywk #KnowYourNews
See NewsGuard’s other Tweets
Furthermore,
Newsguard gives a high rating to Voice
of America,
the U.S. state-funded media outlet, even though its former acting
associate director said that
the outlet produces “fluff journalism” and despite the fact that
it was recently reformed to “provide news that supports our [U.S.]
national security objectives.” However, RT receives
a low “red” rating for
being funded by the Russian government and for “raising doubts
about other countries and their institutions” (i.e., including
reporting critical of the institutions and governments of the U.S.
and its allies).
Keeping
the conversation safe for the corporatocracy
Newsguard describes
itself as
an organization dedicated to “restoring trust and accountability”
and using “journalism to fight false news, misinformation and
disinformation.” While it repeatedly
claims on
its website that its employees “have no political axes to grind”
and “care deeply about reliable journalism’s pivotal role in
democracy,” a quick look at its co-founders, top funders and
advisory board make it clear that Newsguard is aimed at curbing
voices that hold the powerful — in both government and the private
sector — to account.
Newsguard
is the latest venture to result from the partnership between Steven
Brill and Louis Gordon Crovitz, who currently serve as co-CEOs of the
group. Brill is a long-time journalist — published
in TIME and The
New Yorker,
among others — who most recently founded the Yale Journalism
Initiative, which aims
to encourage Yale
students who “aspire to contribute to democracy in the United
States and around the world” to become journalists at top U.S. and
international media organizations. He first teamed up with Crovitz in
2009 to
create Journalism
Online,
which sought to make the online presence of top American newspapers
and other publishers profitable, and was also the
CEO of the company that
partnered up with the TSA to offer “registered” travelers the
ability to move more quickly through airport security — for a
price, of course.
While
Brill’s past does not in itself raise red flags, Crovitz — his
partner in founding Journalism
Online,
then Press+, and now Newsguard — is the last person one would
expect to find promoting any legitimate effort to “restore trust
and accountability” in journalism. In the early 1980s.
Crovitz held a
number of positions at Dow Jones and at the Wall
Street Journal,
eventually becoming executive vice president of the former and the
publisher of the latter before both were sold to Rupert Murdoch’s
News Corp in 2007. He is also a board member of Business
Insider,
which has received over
$30 million from Washington
Post owner
Jeff Bezos in recent years.
In
addition to being a member of the Council on Foreign Relations,
Crovitz proudly notes in his bio, available
on Newsguard’s website,
that he has been an “editor or contributor to books published by
the American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation.” Though
many MintPress readers
are likely familiar with these two institutions, for those who are
not, it is worth pointing out that the American Enterprise Institute
(AEI) is one of the most influential neoconservative think tanks in
the country and its “scholars,” directors and fellows have
included neoconservative figures like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle,
John Bolton and Frederick Kagan.
During
the George W. Bush administration, AEI was instrumental in promoting
the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq and has since
advocated for militaristic solutions to U.S. foreign policy
objectives and the expansion of the U.S.’ military empire as well
as the “War on Terror.”
During
the Bush years, AEI was also closely associated with the now defunct
and controversial neoconservative organization known as the Project
for a New American Century (PNAC), which presciently called, four
years before 9/11, for a “new Pearl Harbor” as needed to rally
support behind American military adventurism.
The
Heritage Foundation, like AEI, was also supportive of the war in Iraq
and has pushed for the expansion of the War on Terror and U.S.
missile defense and military empire. Its corporate donors over the
years have included Procter & Gamble, Chase Manhattan Bank, Dow
Chemical, and Exxon Mobil, among others.
Crovitz’s
associations with AEI and the Heritage Foundation, as well as his
ties to Wall Street and the upper echelons of corporate media, are
enough to make any thinking person question his commitment to being a
fair watchdog of “legitimate journalism.” Yet, beyond his
innumerable connections to neoconservatives and powerful monied
interest, Crovitz has repeatedly
been accused of
inserting misinformation into his Wall
Street Journal columns,
with groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation accusing him of
“repeatedly
getting his facts wrong”
on NSA surveillance and other issues. Some of the blatant falsehoods
that have appeared in Crovitz’s work have never been corrected,
even when his
own sources called
him out for
misinformation.
For
example, in a WSJ opinion
piece that
was written by Crovitz in 2012, Crovitz was accused of making
“fantastically false claims” about the history of the internet by
the very people he had cited to support those claims.
As TechDirt wrote
at the time:
Almost
everyone he [Crovitz] sourced or credited to support his argument
that the internet was invented entirely privately at Xerox PARC and
when Vint Cerf helped create TCP/IP, has spoken out to say he’s
wrong. And that list includes both Vint
Cerf, himself, and Xerox.
Other sources, including Robert Taylor (who was there when the
internet was invented) and Michael
Hiltzik,
have rejected Crovitz’s spinning of their own stories.”
The
oligarch team’s deep bench
While
Brill and Crovitz’s connections alone should be enough cause for
alarm, a cursory examination of Newsguard’s advisory
board
makes it clear that Newsguard was created to serve the interests of
American oligarchy. Chief among Newsguard’s advisors are Tom Ridge,
the first Secretary of Homeland Security under George W. Bush and
Ret. General Michael Hayden, a former CIA director, a former NSA
director and principal at the
Chertoff Group,
a security consultancy seeking to “advise corporate clients and
governments, including foreign governments” on security matters
that was co-founded by former Homeland Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff, who also currently serves as the board
chairman of
major weapons manufacturer BAE systems.
Another
Newsguard advisor of note is Richard Stengel, former editor
of Time magazine,
a “distinguished
fellow”
at the Atlantic Council and Undersecretary of State for Public
Diplomacy under President Barack Obama. At a panel discussion hosted
last May by the Council on Foreign Relations, Stengel described his
past position at the State Department as “chief
propagandist”
and also stated that he is “not
against propaganda. Every country does it and they have to do it to
their own population and I don’t necessarily think it’s that
awful.”
(de video, waarvan de still in het hieronder weergegeven artikel kan ik niet overnemen, zie daarvoor het origineel)
At a Council on Foreign Relations forum about “fake news,” former Editor at Time Magazine Richard Stengel directly states that he supports the use of propaganda on American citizens – then shuts the session down when challenged about how propaganda is used against the third world
Other
Newsguard advisors include Don Baer, former White House
communications director and advisor to Bill Clinton and current
chairman of
both PBS and the influential PR firm Burson Cohn & Wolfe as well
as Elise Jordan, former communications director for the National
Security Council and former speech-writer for Condoleezza Rice, as
well as the widow of
slain journalist Michael Hastings — who was writing an exposé on
former CIA director John Brennan at the time of his suspicious death.
A
look at Newguard’s investors further illustrates the multifarious
connections between this organization and the American political and
corporate elite. While Brill and Crovitz themselves are the company’s
top investors, one of Newsguard’s most
important investors is
the Publicis Groupe. Publicis is the third
largest global
communications company in the world, with more than 80,000 employees
in over 100 countries and an annual revenue of over €9.6 billion
($10.98 billion) in 2017. It is no stranger to controversy, as one of
its subsidiaries, Qorvis,
recently came under fire for exploiting U.S.
veterans at the behest of the Saudi government and also helped the
Saudi government to “whitewash”
its human rights record and its genocidal war in Yemen after
receiving $6 million from the Gulf Kingdom in 2017.
Furthermore,
given its size and influence, it is unsurprising that the Publicis
Groupe counts many powerful corporations and governments among its
clientele. Some of its top
clients in
2018 included pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer and
Bayer/Monsanto as well as Starbucks, Procter & Gamble, McDonalds,
Kraft Heinz, Burger King, and the governments of Australia and Saudi
Arabia. Given its influential role in funding Newsguard, it is
reasonable to point out the potential conflict of interest posed by
the fact that sites that accurately report on Publicis’ powerful
clients — but generate bad publicity — could be targeted for such
reports in Newsguard’s ranking.
In
addition to the Publicis Groupe, another major investor in Newsguard
is the Blue Haven Initiative, which is the venture capital “impact
investment” fund of the wealthy
Pritzker family —
one of the top 10 wealthiest families in the U.S., best known as the
owners of the Hyatt Hotel chain and for being the second
largest financial
contributors to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Other
top investors include John
McCarter,
a long-time executive at U.S. government contractor Booz Allen
Hamilton, as well as Thomas
Glocer,
former CEO of Reuters and a member of the boards of pharmaceutical
giant Merck & Co., financial behemoth Morgan Stanley, and the
Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a member of the Atlantic
Council’s International Advisory Board.
Through
these investors, Newsguard managed to raise $6
million to
begin its ranking efforts in March of 2018. Newsguard’s actual
revenues and financing, however, have not been disclosed despite the
fact that it requires the sites it ranks to disclose their funding.
In a display of pure hypocrisy, Newsguard’s United States
Securities and Exchange Commission Form
D —
which was filed March 5, 2018 — states that the company “declined
to disclose” the size of its total revenue.
Why
give folks a choice?
While
even a quick glance at its advisory board alone would be enough for
many Americans to decline to install Newsguard’s browser extension
on their devices, the danger of Newsguard is the fact that it is
diligently working to make the adoption of its app involuntary.
Indeed, if voluntary adoption of Newsguard’s app were the case,
there would likely be little cause for concern, given that its
website attracts barely more than 300
visits per month and
its social-media following is relatively small, with just over
2,000 Twitter
followers and
barely 500 Facebook
likes at
the time of this article’s publication.
To
illustrate its slip-it-under-the-radar strategy, Newsguard has gone
directly to state governments to push its browser extension onto
entire state public library systems, even though its website suggests
that individual public libraries are welcome to install the extension
if they so choose. The first state to install Newsguard on all
of its public library computers across
its 51 branches was the state of Hawaii — which was the first to
partner with Newsguard’s “news literacy initiative,” just last
month.
Aloha, Hawaiian libraries! The state has added the NewsGuard extension to the computers patrons use in all its public libraries. Thanks to #Microsoft for sponsoring news literacy. bigislandnow.com/2018/12/17/lib…
According
to local
media,
Newsguard “now works with library systems representing public
libraries across the country, and is also partnering with middle
schools, high schools, universities, and educational organizations to
support their news literacy efforts,” suggesting that these
Newsguard services targeting libraries and schools are soon to become
a compulsory component of the American library and education system,
despite Newsguard’s glaring conflicts of interest with massive
multinational corporations and powerful government power-brokers.
Notably,
Newsguard has a powerful partner that has allowed it to start finding
its way into public library and school computers throughout the
country. As part of its new “Defending Democracy” initiative,
Microsoft announced last August that it would be partnering with
Newsguard to actively market the company’s ranking app and other
services to libraries and schools throughout the country.
Microsoft’s press
release regarding
the partnership states that Newsguard “will empower voters by
providing them with high-quality information about the integrity and
transparency of online news sites.”
Since
then, Microsoft has now
added the
Newsguard app as a built-in feature of Microsoft Edge, its browser
for iOS and Android mobile devices, and is unlikely to stop there.
Indeed, as a recent
report in
favor of Microsoft’s partnership with Newsguard noted, “we could
hope that this new partnership will allow Microsoft to add NewsGuard
to Edge on Windows 10 [operating system for computers] as well.”
Newsguard,
for its part, seems confident that its app will soon be added by
default to all mobile devices. On its website, the organization notes
that “NewsGuard
will be available on mobile devices when the digital platforms such
as social media sites and search engines or mobile operating systems
add our ratings and Nutrition Labels directly.” This shows that
Newsguard isn’t expecting its rating systems to be offered as a
downloadable application for mobile devices but something that social
media sites like Facebook, search engines like Google, and mobile
device operating systems that are dominated by Apple and Google will
“directly” integrate into nearly every smartphone and tablet sold
in the United States.
A Boston
Globe article
on Newsguard from this past October makes this plan even more clear.
The Globe wrote at
the time:
Microsoft
has already agreed to make NewsGuard a built-in feature in future
products, and [Newsguard co-CEO] Brill said he’s in talks with
other online titans. The goal is to have NewsGuard running by default
on our computers and phones whenever we scan the Web for news.”
This
eventuality is made all the more likely given the fact that, in
addition to Microsoft, Newsguard is also closely connected to Google,
as Google has been a partner of the Publicis Groupe since
2014,
when the two massive companies joined Condé Nast to create a new
marketing service called La Maison that is “focused on producing
engaging content for marketers in the luxury space.” Given Google’s
power in the digital sphere as the dominant search engine, the
creator of the Android mobile operating system, and the owner of
YouTube, its partnership with Publicis means that Newsguard’s
rating system will soon see itself being promoted by yet another of
Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies.
Furthermore,
there is an effort underway to integrate Newsguard into social media
sites like Facebook and Twitter. Indeed, as Newsguard was launched,
co-CEO Brill stated that he planned
to sell the
company’s ratings of news sites to Facebook and Twitter. Last
March, Brill told CNN that
“We’re asking them [Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Google] to
pay a fraction of what they pay their P.R. people and their lobbyists
to talk about the problem.”
On
Wednesday, Gallup released
a poll that
will likely be used as a major selling point to social media giants.
The poll — funded by Newsguard and the Knight Foundation, which is
a top investor in Newsguard and has recently
funded a
series of Gallup polls relating to online news — seems to have been
created with the intention of manufacturing consent for the
integration of Newsguard with top social media sites.
This
is because the promoted findings from the study are as follows:“89%
of users of social media sites and 83% overall want social media
sites and search engines to integrate NewsGuard ratings and reviews
into their news feeds and search results” and “69% would trust
social media and search companies more if they took the simple step
of including NewsGuard in their products.” However, a disclaimer at
the end of the poll states that the results, which were based on the
responses of 706 people each of whom received $2 to participate, “may
not be reflective of attitudes of the broader U.S adult population.”
With
trust at Facebook nose-diving and Facebook’s censorship of
independent media already well underway, the findings of this poll
could well be used to justify its integration into Facebook’s
platform. The connections of both Newsguard and Facebook to the
Atlantic Council make this seem a given.
Financial
censorship
Another
Newsguard service shows that this organization is also seeking to
harm independent media financially by targeting online revenue.
Through a service called “Brandguard,” which
it describes as a “brand safety tool aimed at helping advertisers
keep their brands off of unreliable news and information sites while
giving them the assurance they need to support thousands of
Green-rated [i.e., Newsguard-approved] news and information sites,
big and small.”
At
the time the service was announced last November, Newsguard co-CEO
Brill stated that the company was “in discussions with the ad tech
firms, leading agencies, and major advertisers” eager to adopt a
blacklist of news sites deemed “unreliable” by Newsguard. This is
unsurprising given the leading role of the Publicis Groupe, one of
the world’s largest advertising and PR firms, has in funding
Newsguard. As a consequence, it seems likely that many, if not all,
of Publicis’ client companies will choose to adopt this blacklist
to help crush many of the news sites that are unafraid to hold them
accountable.
It
is also important to note here that Google’s connection to Publicis
and thus Newsguard could spell trouble for independent news pages
that rely on Google Adsense for some or all of their ad-based
revenue. Google Adsense has long been targeting sites
like MintPress by
demonetizing articles for information or photographs it deemed
controversial, including demonetizing
one article for
including a photo showing U.S. soldiers involved in torturing Iraqi
detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison.
Since
then, Google — a U.S. military contractor — has repeatedly tried
to shutter ad access to MintPress articles
that involve reporting that is critical of U.S. empire and military
expansion. One
article that
has been repeatedly flagged by Google details how many
African-Americans have questioned whether the Women’s March has
aided or harmed the advancement of African-Americans in the United
States. Google has repeatedly claimed that the article, which was
written by African-American author and former Washington
Post bureau
chief Jon Jeter, contains “dangerous content.”
Given
Google’s already established practice of targeting factual
reporting it deemed controversial through Adsense, Brandguard will
likely offer the tech giant just the excuse it needs to cut off sites
like MintPress, and other pages equally critical of
empire, altogether.
An
action plan for the genuine protection of journalism
Though
it is just getting started, Newsguard’s plan to insert its app into
every device and major social-media network is a threat to any news
site that regularly publishes information that rubs any of
Newsguard’s investors, partners or advisors the wrong way. Given
its plan to rank the English-language U.S. news sites that account
for 98 percent of U.S. digital news consumption, Newsguard’s agenda
is of the utmost concern to every independent media page active in
the United States and beyond — given Newsguard’s promise to take
its project global.
By
linking up with former CIA and NSA directors, Silicon Valley Giants,
and massive PR firms working for some of the most controversial
governments and corporations in the world, Newsguard has betrayed the
fact that it is not actually seeking to “restore trust and
accountability” in journalism, but to “restore trust and
accountability” in news outlets that protect the existing power
structure and help shield the corporate-led oligarchy and
military-industrial complex from criticism.
Not
only is it trying to tank the reputations of independent media
through its biased ranking system, Newsguard is also seeking to
attack these alternative voices financially and by slipping its
ranking system by default onto all computers and phones sold in the
U.S.
However,
Newsguard and it agenda of guarding the establishment from criticism
can be stopped. By supporting independent media and unplugging from
social media sites committed to censorship, like Facebook and
Twitter, we can strengthen the independent media community and keep
it afloat despite the unprecedented nature of these attacks on free
speech and watchdog journalism.
Beyond
that, a key way to keep Newsguard and those behind it on their toes
is to hold them to
account
by pointing out their clear conflicts of interest and hypocrisy and
by derailing the narrative they are carefully crafting that Newsguard
is “non-partisan,” “trustworthy,” and true guardians against
the scourge of “fake news.”
While
this report has sought to be a starting point for such work, anyone
concerned about Newsguard and its connections to the war machine and
corrupt corporations should feel encouraged to point out the
organization’s own conflicts of interests and shady connections via
its Twitter and Facebook pages
and the feedback
section on
Newsguard’s website. The best way to defeat this new tool of the
neocons is to put them on notice and to continue to expose Newsguard
as a guardian of empire, not a guardian of journalism.
By Whitney
Webb / Creative
Commons / MintPress
News / Report
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Zie ook:
‘WhatsApp beperking in strijd tegen fake news‘
‘Massamedia VS vallen keihard door de mand met ‘vers’ geschoten Russiagate bok >> publiek wordt om vertrouwen gevraagd‘
‘Bedrijf dat voor ‘Russische bots’ waarschuwde, heeft een leger met nep-Russische bots‘
‘VS begint ‘troll farm’, alsof Hollywood en de massamedia al niet genoeg VS propaganda maken……….‘
‘Waarom de burgers van de VS de illegale oorlogen steunen‘
‘Two More Spiegel Employees Out After Fake News Scandal Expands‘ Ofwel: het zoveelste ‘gevalletje fake news’, gebracht door de reguliere massamedia……..
‘Facebook censureert foto’s van verhongerende Jemenitische kinderen als ‘sexual content’‘
‘Facebook gebruikte ‘fake news’ beschuldiging om de aandacht voor schandalen af te leiden‘
‘Google Maps veegt Palestijns gebied van de kaart‘
‘Russiagate sprookje ondermijnt VS democratie en de midterm verkiezingen‘
‘Facebooks zuivering van de alternatieve (nieuws) media staat nog in de kinderschoenen‘
‘Politico rapport bevestigt: Russiagate is een hoax‘ (Russiagate, de enorme leugen op basis waaraan we de huidige censuurgolf te danken hebben……)
‘The US military’s vision for state censorship‘
‘Israël en VS werken samen in tegenwerken van critici op beleid t.a.v. Palestijnen‘
‘Facebook censureert de waarheid over Columbus en de verovering van de Amerika’s…….‘
‘Why the Coordinated Alternative Media Purge Should Terrify Everyone‘ (Tyler Durden op Zero Hedge)
‘First They Came for Alex Jones — We Told You We Were Next — We Were‘ (Matt Agorist op The Free Thought Project)
‘CNN, de grote brenger van ‘fake news!!!’‘
‘Facebook en Twitter verwijderen nu volledige accounts………‘
‘Facebook (en Twitter) onderdrukt meningsvorming door het verwijderen van (echt) onafhankelijke media‘
‘Wie het nieuws controleert, controleert de wereld……‘
‘Facebook en Twitter verwijderen de eerlijke journalistiek en oprechte opinie >> censuur…..‘
‘Censuur op het internet met vliegende start in de VS, ‘het land van het vrije woord….’‘
‘Facebook en NAVO werken samen in censuur op niet welgevallig nieuws……‘
‘Aanval op alternatieve media ‘succesvol’: meer en meer sites worden van het net geweerd………‘
‘ThinkProgress eiste censuur van Facebook en werd inderdaad gecensureerd…. ha! ha! ha! ha!‘
‘VS staatscensuur op Facebook (ook in de EU)‘
‘Facebook wil samen met door Saoedi-Arabië gesubsidieerde denktank censureren…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘
‘Media Too Busy Defending John McCain to Report the News That Actually Affects You‘ Onder andere aandacht voor PRISM.
‘Westerse massa misleiding in aanloop naar WOIII……‘
‘Eis een nee tegen censuur op het internet!‘
‘Facebook e.a. hebben lak aan AVG (GDPR), misbruik persoonsgegevens gaat gewoon door…….‘
‘Jeremy Corbyn wordt gedemoniseerd als antisemiet…….‘
‘Facebook: verrijking van oliemaatschappijen en andere grote bedrijven, plus wereldwijde corruptie…….‘
Facebook Purges Independent Media for “Political Disinformation”
Facebook Blocks Links to Free Speech Competitor ‘Minds’
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