TYLER DURDEN
Microsoft has dropped NewsGuard, a left-wing fact checking organization they partnered with that has helped the advertising industry justify blacklists for independent conservative media sites such as ZeroHedge.
The move came after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) began investigating Microsoft for funding the online "media literacy" censorship tool created by NewsGuard to help guide "learners of all ages through the overwhelming landscape of online news and information."
Now we come to find out that NewsGuard was funded by USAID...
In response to Cruz, Microsoft claims their support of NewsGuard was limited to a one-time donation in 2018, and said it had asked NewsGuard to remove a claim on its website that read "NewsGuard's Media Literacy Programs are made possible thanks to generous support from Microsoft," Newsmax reports, citing a Senate Commerce Committee spokesperson.
So did NewsGuard's deep state advisor, Michael Hayden..
Organizations that claimed to oppose "disinformation" spread their own disinformation about the story.
Here, NewsGuard co-founder Steven Brill claims, without evidence, that the story was likely a "hoax perpetrated by the Russians."
NewsGuard has since removed any mention of Microsoft from their website.
"Big Tech is finally beginning to recognize the censorship of conservative viewpoints will no longer be tolerated by the American people," Cruz, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said in a statement to Newsmax on Thursday.
"I am happy to see that the leadership at Microsoft has renounced their support of NewsGuard's so-called media literacy tool in response to my letter.
"NewsGuard's biased rating system stifles intellectual diversity, hinders critical thinking among young students, and undermines our nation's core values of free expression."
1 comment:
Cruz needs to keep digging up information on the DC plane crash. A follow up on the reason why the shut down of a chopper safety system and its impact on the collision.
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