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Special Report
ProPublica’s Weaponization of Journalism: The Bad
While ProPublica’s broad-scope investigative reporting and extensive data journalism have earned it praise and a good reputation, the more narrowly focused coverage coming from the organization of late has diminished…
by Parker Thayer on June 27, 2024

Special Report
ProPublica’s Weaponization of Journalism: The Ugly Truth
By cherry-picking facts and basing reports on insinuations ProPublica crafted a narrative so egregiously one-sided that many started to question its commitment to unbiased reporting. Bad journalism happens, especially in…
by Parker Thayer on June 27, 2024

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

Foundation Watch
The Hub Project: Hiding Ties to the Wyss Foundation
The story begins in 2015 when the consulting firm Civitas Public Affairs Group produced a private report for the Wyss Foundation, the philanthropy vehicle of Swiss-born Hansjörg Wyss.[1] The report outlined…
by Hayden Ludwig on June 6, 2024

Foundation Watch
The Hub Project: A Foundation with a Lobbying Arm
Enter the Berger Action Fund, founded in 2007 as the Wyss Action Fund and perhaps the most unusual piece of the puzzle. Foundations are typically wary of associating themselves with 501(c)(4)…
on June 6, 2024

Special Report
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: Rise of the Fact-Checking
A casual political observer may take the “fact-checker” label at face value. But the entire industry (with little exception) serves as a Trojan horse to justify censorship for the political…
by Matt Palumbo on May 29, 2024

Special Report
Misinformation and Checking the Fact-Checkers: The Money Behind Fact-Checking
PolitiFact takes the cake as the worst of the faux fact-checkers and has rightly garnered a reputation for being the most clearly biased in favor of the Left. PolitiFact originated…
by Matt Palumbo on May 29, 2024