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Award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson slammed NewsGuard into the dust on Thursday after the dubious fact-checking organization came after her website.

NewsGuard is, as previously documented, an organization that purports to make Internet content more reliable by flagging and censoring so-called “misinformation” and “disinformation.”

But as previously documented, NewsGuard has a pesky but predictable habit of applying the “misinformation” and “disinformation” label to otherwise factually accurate content that belies the leftist narrative.

Speaking of which, it turns out that NewsGuard recently reached out to Attkisson to complain that the content on her website allegedly contains “untrue information.”

But according to her, this is a bull narrative, and the reality is that the “fact-based material” on her website simply “differs from the government/pharmaceutical industry narratives” that the left is eager to promote.

Look:

Besides containing a summary of what happened, the above tweet also included Attkisson’s response to the NewsGuard rep, Anicka, who reached out to her.

“No offense, but trying to respond to someone who lacks the knowledge to understand the difference between the true state of informed scientific thought vs the untrue propaganda pushed out by the medical establishment… is like explaining that cigarettes can cause lung cancer to someone still operating off what the govt. and scientific establishment insisted was true through 1963,” her response read.

“In other words, it just wastes both of our time. I can’t think of anybody who’s heard of Newsguard, except the audience of propagandists trying to push to get a website a good or bad rating so they can then point to the rating for their own purposes,” it continued.

She wasn’t done. Attkisson also included a devastating PS.

“Years ago I monetized my website with Google ads, which helped defray a bit of the cost,” the PS read. “But Google threatened to suspend ad ability if I didn’t take down factually accurate studies and links to stories about pharmaceutical matters. I refused to take them down. I don’t monetize my website but that’s okay. It’s unadulterated. A NewsGuard rating won’t change that, and won’t keep me from publishing facts.”

Boom!

Attkisson’s fierce pushback comes two months after House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, a Republican, penned a letter to NewsGuard demanding access to all documents “related to all past and present contracts with or grants administered by government agencies.”

Comer’s concern was that NewsGuard had been colluding with the Biden-Harris administration to silence and censor dissenting thought.

“These wide-ranging connections with various government agencies are taking place as the government is rapidly expanding into the censorship sphere,” Comer said in a statement. “For example, one search of government grants and contracts from 2016 through 2023 revealed that there were 538 separate grants and 36 different government contracts specifically to address ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation.’”

“The protection of First Amendment rights of American citizens is paramount and attempts by government actors to infringe on those rights is dangerous and misguided,” he added.

The great irony surrounding NewsGuard is that it has its own rich history of peddling ACTUAL misinformation and disinformation. Meanwhile, the leftist organization has never penalized the corporate media for propagating the Russian collusion delusion hoax and conspiracy theory.

Why is NewsGuard even relevant in the first place? For two reasons.

#1. Its software is being used in schools, libraries, hospitals, and other public facilities.

#2. It has a sub-product, BrandGuard, that’s “used by advertisers and the agencies that represent them, to ensure their ads don’t appear alongside news stories and at media outlets to which NewsGuard assigns a low rating,” according to journalist Paul Bond.

“Insiders at multiple media outlets [said] that many companies arbitrarily choose a 70% NewsGuard rating as a minimum threshold before they’ll consider buying an ad, notably just above the 69.5% rating it gives to Fox News,” Bond recently reported for Just The News.

The bottom line is that NewsGuard has a lot of influence, in that its ratings can lead to a news site either suffering a loss in traffic and advertising or getting a boost in traffic and advertising.

The problem, of course, is that NewsGuard is innately a left-wing for-profit operation that exists to serve the interests of the Democrat Party.

Vivek Saxena
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