NewsGuard has Jihad Watch blacklisted also, not because they can show that anything we report is actually inaccurate, but because we don’t toe the Leftist line. Microsoft has taken a giant step into the Orwellian future by including this spurious “fact-checking” data on one of its web browsers, but now that NewsGuard is so thoroughly shredding its own credibility right out of the gate, maybe Microsoft will reconsider and we will have a bit more time before the freedom of speech window closes entirely.
“Nolte: Blacklisters at Microsoft’s NewsGuard Label Proven Hoaxes ‘Credible,’” by John Nolte, Breitbart, January 28, 2019:
NewsGuard, which is the establishment media’s latest effort to blacklist alternative media sites, is giving its sign of approval to proven hoaxes, even to stories that have been retracted.
Microsoft is so desperate to spread fake news and blacklist ideas it doesn’t like, NewsGuard is automatically included in one of its browsers.
You will find more examples below, but here is NewsGuard’s seal of approval (on the Google search page) for Rolling Stone’s 2014 hoax about a gang rape at the University of Virginia (UVA).
Rolling Stone (which NewsGuard gave a passing grade) was eventually forced to retract the story and settle some lawsuits, but the far-left HuffPost’s aggregation of Rolling Stone’s proven lie is still live, and that green checkmark is NewsGuard’s way of telling readers they are reading something credible:
You see, when you do a Google search of stories, NewsGuard and Microsoft use the green checkmark to tell you what is and is not credible, what is and is not blacklisted, and this is NewsGuard giving the green light to a story that was so fake, it had to be retracted.
Compare that to NewsGuard’s labeling as fake news a basic news story like this one…
Why is NewsGuard labeling that fake news? Simply because Breitbart News published it. We didn’t even write that story. The AP did. We are simply aggregating the AP…
Look at the roundup below, which took less than 20 minutes to track down. Every single one of these stories is fake news, starting with BuzzFeed’s debunked lie about President Trump telling his then-personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress.
Look at how NewsGuard and Microsoft openly and audaciously deceive their readers…
The Washington Post’s debunked hoax about Russia hacking Vermont’s utility grid — credible!!
The lie about first lady Melania Trump being an illegal alien — credible!!
The lie about Trump changing the name of Black History Month — credible!!
The lie about Trump threatening to invade Mexico — credible!!
The lie about Congress investigating a Russian fund with ties to Trump — credible!!
So why? Why are NewsGuard and Microsoft deliberately marking fake news as credible? Why are they looking to fool people into believing proven hoaxes are legitimate stories — even outrageous ones about the first lady coming to the country illegally?
This is all about 2020, my friends.
As I pointed out last week, NewsGuard marks as fake every single story Breitbart News publishes — not because the story is inaccurate, but because we report stories NewsGuard does not believe should be reported.…
Someone says
The Google, Facebook, and Microsoft political commissars are clearly trying to out compete each other to see which one is the biggest BIG BROTHER. They have all become a threat to freedom, liberty, representative government, and the public square. BUST THEM UP!
mortimer says
This is draconian. There must be a law that is applicable to stop these fraudsters. This is clearly fraud.
gravenimage says
Microsoft’s “fact-checker” NewsGuard labels proven hoaxes “credible,” blacklists factual stories Leftists dislike
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The examples above are just nuts.
That Google has accepted this biased and flawed outfit is just sickening.
Lydia Church says
Orwell’s brave new media speech rules:
1. Lies are the truth.
2. The truth is all lies.
Any questions???
marc says
Please leave honest and thoughtful reviews for the newsguard browser apps here:
for firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/newsguard/
for chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/newsguard/hcgajcpgaalgpeholhdooeddllhedegi
gravenimage says
Thanks for those links, Marc.
livingengine says
John Gregory looks like a Muslim.
Roadrunner 2910@t-online.de says
There is a saying which is attributed to Winston Churchill “do you have enemies? Great, that means you are standing for something”. So I believe that we should be honored to have enemies.
gravenimage says
Yes–an important quote. I have in my commonplace book.
fredoniahead says
I never see those icons because I use DuckDuckGo. Google has been too propagandist for me for quite some time. They’ll only get worse. Especially now since they entered the Chinese market with their Super Social Credit Spying System. They’ll likely implement the same tactics here though do it surreptitiously.
No Muzzies Here says
The left is expanding its control over the opinions of the masses. They can now dictate what we accept as truth.
KWJ says
I use Microsoft Edge but it’s not doing this when I search those article titles on Google. I’m not clear about what search engine is using News Guard or what version of Microsoft Edge. It’s ridiculous and shows that Microsoft is anti-free speech and organizations who think they should be arbiters of what’s real or not can easily be paid off just as the SPLC is funded by people with very obvious agendas.
Is the hyper-concern about fake news even that important when mainstream news doesn’t even report a lot of important news that doesn’t fit an agenda. Omission is as bad as lying. If people have conspiracy theories about 9/11, so what? People can argue with them just as one would about psychics on TV or anti-vaxxers.
The remedy is worse than the disease.