by Katy Grimes at California Globe
NewsGuard strikes again.
The Globe recently reported that we, along with other online news outlets which specialize in accurate, honest news reporting, have been the target of political censorship by the U.S. Defense Department-backed, Microsoft-backed, Big Pharma-backed “NewsGuard.”
The attacks on the Globe started in 2021 when we received an email from John Gregory, health editor at NewsGuard. We exchanged many emails with Gregory in 2021 and 2022 about NewsGuard’s rating of CaliforniaGlobe.com, where Gregory accused the Globe of publishing misinformation and disinformation about Covid protocols.
We also recently reported that Dennis Prager’s “Prager U” had just launched a campaign to expose NewsGuard with a petition, and an enlightening Prager U video explaining how this is being done.
Now another NewsGuard victim is fighting back. Jonathan Turley, a Constitutional Law Professor at George Washington University Law School, dared to criticize NewsGuard, which he describes as “a rating operation being used to warn users, advertisers, educators and funders away from media outlets based on how it views the outlets’ ‘credibility and transparency.’”
“Roughly a week later, NewsGuard came knocking at my door,” Turley said…
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