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I never got this, and normally that would disqualify me from writing a review, right? Well, I'm writing this because I fear that Newsguard's business model should be considered harmful. The ratings are essentially based on how well news outlets follow the establishment narrative. It doesn't matter (to newsguard) when the establishment gets the story wrong- like the russia collusion hoax or the fact that the hunter biden laptop existed and was actually authentic. They want people to believe that the whole world got that stuff wrong accidentally, or incidentally or whatever the case may be. Where in fact, there's actually criticism of the establishment narrative ALL OF THE TIME- that's literally how discussion works- this is how politics has always worked. All they are doing is suppressing the truth when it counts. We all know the truth (usually) comes out eventually.Their policies do not encourage different ideas- they could potentially allow the establishment to brainwash the majority of people long enough to get the popular vote in- then use that to censor any idea that goes against the grain under the guise of strawmen terms such as "misinformation, malinformation, disinformation" with little substantial counter-arguments. Why no counter-arguments? Well, who wants to waste time arguing with conspiracy theorists, right?The solution to bad speech is more speech. They're getting Newsguard into libraries, public schools, government buildings, universities and they're only spending buckets of funding into more places like that. They're partnering with some of the most powerful and richest people in the world to try and get more control over people. If you want to be sure that the news you read is tilted into the direction of the establishment, and you want to be *all accidentally wrong together* with the establishment and newsguard- this is the service for you.Rather, if you are looking for true, good journalism, you can't even use Newsguard with ratings in reverse- that doesn't work either. So if you want true news, Newsguard is of absolutely no use to you.

Date of experience: Aug 16, 2023