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A New and More Powerful Censorship Coming

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The world we once knew has shifted into something many of us have never experienced, at least in the United States.  But you shout, we have protection! The US Constitution! The Bill of Rights! We are free to say and do as we please, framed within the Rule of Law created by our Founders for a day and time such as this.

Opportunity and abundance, along with many hardships, have given us advantages that many other countries only dream of. But power, control, and money have blinded those, as it always does, with the means to take away those freedoms while cloaked as sheep, trying to hide their fangs. We’ve seen this scenario many times before and it always starts with a vague, pleasing message and the urgent need for censorship.

A company called “Newsguard” (how catchy) has created a platform that will guard you against what they deem is fake, false, or harmful news.

NewsGuard is a self-appointed misinformation watchdog. It seems to be just one more way Americans are not allowed to think for themselves. Co-CEOs Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz claim it is the “librarian for the internet.” Set up specifically to rate online journalistic integrity, Brill states NewsGuard provides services that “explain to people something about the reliability and trustworthiness and background of those who are feeding them the news.” Eric Effron is the organization’s Editorial Director.

These guard dogs of the news look pleasant enough, like the guy over the fence mowing his lawn and waving.  Unlike Stalin or Hitler, they wear no military uniforms or salute a crooked ideology.  These screeners of free speech hide behind expensive tailored suits, stellar credentials from Ivy League schools, and having worked for some of the most impressive news outlets and Fortune 500 companies. So, trust them!

They smile as they speak in calm tones and assure us that we need their protection in the age of The Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence, where so-called misinformation now travels across the world in seconds. Eric Effron, Newsguard’s Editorial Director, wants you to picture a prim, well-dressed librarian at the front desk, looking over his or her glasses while screening acceptable content going in or out of the building. Only this library is a haunted building where the books are blank, their content erased or altered. There is no memory of the writer or the meaning of their message. So you move along, still looking for information, but pointed in a different direction, where what you are allowed to see has been found acceptable.

NewsGuard mentions its partnership with the WHO in August 2020 and discusses its Misinformation Fingerprints cataloging tool. The tool is essentially a database with a “unique identifier for each hoax that, when combined with the platforms’ machine learning tools, will allow platforms to identify each hoax across the entirety of their platforms.” NewsGuard describes Misinformation Fingerprints as an “extraction and cataloging” tool. It  provides “data seeds for existing AI/Social Listening tools to trace false claims across the internet and social media or can be used by human analysts to understand mis- and disinformation risks.”  NewsGuard was also a signatory in 2021 to the Code of Practice on Disinformation for the European Commission.

But wait….there’s more! They won a contest!

NewsGuard won a 2020 contest run by the “Pentagon and Department of State to offer solutions to hoaxes related to the COVID-19 pandemic.” The contest focused specifically on the “pre-bunking” of internet hoaxes. NewsGuard was also “a winner of the Countering Disinformation Challenge, a contest offered jointly by the State Department and the Department of Defense (DoD) as a part of the DoD’s National Security Innovation Network (NSIN).” NSIN is a “government program office within the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OSD (R&amp;E)) that collaborates with major universities and the venture community to develop solutions that drive national security innovation.

Didn’t it just come to light that the Covid virus was leaked from a lab? Weren’t many credentialed scientists blocked from publishing their suspicions after studying the gene sequence of the virus?

Let’s continue:

NewsGuard issued its first “social impact report” in 2022. The report championed NewsGuard’s provision of tools that would promote “online safety for readers, brands, and democracies.” Its CEOs proudly state a mission to fight false claims of “Nazis running Ukraine’s government and Americans running bioweapons labs in Ukraine,” COVID-19 misinformation, and misinformation surrounding the mid-term elections.

According to the report, “more than 938,200 people were exposed to COVID-19 vaccine myths between Oct. 2021-Feb. 2022 on social media.” The report also reveals NewsGuard’s exposure of “pink slime sites pushing Democratic propaganda in battleground states ahead of the midterm elections.

Didn’t someone in the Biden administration testify under oath that there were biolabs in Ukraine? I saw her testimony on TV. Didn’t it just come to light that the Jan. 6th Commission was feeding information that was altered or not accurate? Tucker Carlson of Fox News aired some altered footage just last night. Medicines readily available that were shown to help people who contracted Covid, were deemed questionable, and this resulted in these meds not being dispensed or limited by health providers. Newsguard needs to give their prize money back.


Here’s the worst part:

NewsGuard has partnered with Microsoft, Pfizer, the Department of Defense with a 2021 $749,387 one-year contract, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the WHO using NewsGuard’s trademark “new Misinformation Fingerprints” analyst and AI cataloging tool. NewsGuard’s other products include NewsGuard, HealthGuard, and BrandGuard—which help marketers concerned about their brand safety.

It seems the same people and companies keep popping up and isn’t it odd that they are all affiliated with these new guard dogs of their and others’ information? How clever and foresighted!

Our US Constitution is being shredded by those who have not been voted for. The results of groups like this speak for themselves, and they are influencing our access to healthcare treatments, the freedom to choose what kind of treatments we receive or choose not to receive, what we see, hear, read, and teach, and what our children and young people are being taught to believe, to the detriment of freedom, natural (not artificial) health, access to fresh natural food and fuel, employment (as many lost their jobs over the vaccine mandates), and the God-given pursuit of happiness, as our Founders stated. These are dangerous developments that counteract everything we have taken for granted as being available.

Why censor words? If your Scrabble opponent has most of the pieces and you have only a few, who controls the board and wins? Words can heal or wound, start a war or bring peace, can promote hate or produce love, can ask questions, or shut down thought.  Censorship and freedom cannot co-exist.

The world we once knew has shifted into something many of us have never experienced, at least in the United States.  But you shout, we have protection! The US Constitution! The Bill of Rights! We are free to say and do as we please, framed within the Rule of Law created by our Founders for a day and time such as this.

Opportunity and abundance, along with many hardships, have given us advantages that many other countries only dream of. But power, control, and money have blinded those, as it always does, with the means to take away those freedoms while cloaked as sheep, trying to hide their...

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