As
Newsguard’s project advances, it will soon become almost impossible
to avoid this neocon-approved news site’s ranking systems on any
technological device sold in the United States.
by
Whitney Webb
Part 1
Soon after the social media “purge” of independent media sites and pages this past October, a top neoconservative insider — Jamie Fly — was caught stating that the mass deletion of anti-establishment and anti-war pages on Facebook and Twitter was “just the beginning” of a concerted effort by the U.S. government and powerful corporations to silence online dissent within the United States and beyond.
Soon after the social media “purge” of independent media sites and pages this past October, a top neoconservative insider — Jamie Fly — was caught stating that the mass deletion of anti-establishment and anti-war pages on Facebook and Twitter was “just the beginning” of a concerted effort by the U.S. government and powerful corporations to silence online dissent within the United States and beyond.
While a
few, relatively uneventful months in the online news sphere have come
and gone since Fly made this ominous warning, it appears that the
neoconservatives and other standard bearers of the
military-industrial complex and the U.S. oligarchy are now poised to
let loose their latest digital offensive against independent media
outlets that seek to expose wrongdoing in both the private and public
sectors.
As
MintPress News Editor-in-Chief Mnar Muhawesh recently wrote,
MintPress was informed that it was under review by an
organization called Newsguard Technologies, which described
itself to MintPress as simply a “news rating agency” and
asked Muhawesh to comment on a series of allegations, several of
which were blatantly untrue.
However,
further examination of this organization reveals that it is funded by
and deeply connected to the U.S. government, neo-conservatives, and
powerful monied interests, all of whom have been working overtime
since the 2016 election to silence dissent to American forever-wars
and corporate-led oligarchy.
More
troubling still, Newsguard — by virtue of its deep
connections to government and Silicon Valley — is lobbying to have
its rankings of news sites installed by default on computers in U.S.
public libraries, schools, and universities as well as on all
smartphones and computers sold in the United States.
In
other words, as Newsguard’s project advances,
it will soon become almost impossible to avoid this neocon-approved
news site’s ranking systems on any technological device sold in the
United States. Worse still, if its efforts to quash dissenting voices
in the U.S. are successful, Newsguard promises
that its next move will be to take its system global.
Source,
links:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/newsguardneocon-backed-fact-checker-plans-to-wage-war-on-independent-media/253687/
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