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Deception & Misdirection
NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: The Nutrition Label
According to its vision statement, NewsGuard Technologies provides “transparent tools to counter misinformation for readers, brands and democracies.” But while the firm portrays itself as Captain America resisting the enemies…
by Ken Braun on June 17, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: Vitamin Deficient Nutrition
Almost all the big regime media blue bloods, such as the Washington Post, ace the test for NewsGuard's nutrition label. But the system is cooked against everyone else. Even the…
by Ken Braun on June 17, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: History-Making Hoaxes
The combined margin of victory for President Biden in Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, and Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District was just over 65,000 votes. If not for NewsGuard’s 100 percent “pure nutrition”…
by Ken Braun on June 17, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
NewsGuard and Uncle Sam: Disclosure
Even absent official government support, NewsGuard nutrition labels should not be trusted to educate schoolchildren or anyone else on healthy news consumption. It’s biased to steer news consumers toward sources…
by Ken Braun on June 17, 2024

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on May 10, 2024

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on May 3, 2024

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on October 20, 2023

Organization Trends
The Organizations Retraining Journalists
Partisan organizations in the United States are backing the Poynter Institute’s programs to retrain journalists in how to research and write. With the backing of the Democracy Fund, Big…
by Anthony Vendetti on April 13, 2023

Organization Trends
Let Them (the Tech Giants) Fight Dot Gif!
If Americans think they’re mad at tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Twitter for censorship and suppression of speech, they should know that their anger apparently doesn’t compare to the…
by Sarah Lee on March 20, 2023

Green Watch
RE100: Crusaders Against Atomic Energy
Driving quickly to “zero carbon” requires the energy equivalent of a Corvette. The RE100 folks want to get there with a Trabant, an option so unreliable it is unlikely to…
by Ken Braun on August 8, 2022