It was recently learned that the U.S. Department of Defense awarded the fact-checking website NewsGuard a contract worth nearly $750,000, to help launch their “misinformation fingerprints” project.
This project is described as “a catalogue of known hoaxes, falsehoods and misinformation narratives that are spreading online.”
NewsGuard’s growing database of Misinformation Fingerprints™, a catalogue of known hoaxes, falsehoods and misinformation narratives that are spreading online. The dataset for each narrative includes a description of each hoax and why it is false, examples of stories, social media posts, videos, and other content containing the hoax, and related keywords and hashtags. Because these elements—language, hashtags, etc.—are unique to each hoax, each “fingerprint” becomes a unique identifier that can be combined with AI and social listening tools to identify the initial source of the hoax and instances in which the hoax is repeated or amplified on social networks or the open web.
NewsGuard’s description of the project on their website
NewsGuard reached out to Breitbart, and told the news outlet that they have had a longstanding relationship with the defense sectors of the federal government – one that began during the Trump administration.
Our work with US government defense agencies, which we describe on our website, is focused on monitoring foreign state-sponsored media sources, such as those operated by China and Russia, and tracking the false claims those sources promote.
That work is not focused at all on domestic news sources, which are protected by the First Amendment.
We started the first phase of that work in 2020, under the Trump Administration, working with the Pentagon and the Mike Pompeo-led State Department. This work is currently focused on Russian disinformation about its war in Ukraine.
General manager Matt Skibinski of NewsGuard told Breitbart
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The WinePress recently cited a quote from Pompeo – in our report showing NBC admitted they are actively lying and being disingenuous with their coverage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict – where he once stated in a forum:
When I was a cadet, what’s the first – what’s the first cadet motto at West Point? ‘You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those that do.’
I was the CIA Director: we lied, we cheated, we stole. It’s like – it was like – we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the American experiment.
Pompeo stated, to a crowd who laughed and applauded his words.
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Breitbart additionally noted, ‘NewsGuard has a track record of giving negative ratings to conservative-leaning publications, while giving a positive “green” rating to establishment media outlets with a track record of publishing hoaxes, like Rolling Stone. NewsGuard recently partnered with a major teacher’s union to teach kids how to spot “misinformation.”’
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
On the contrary: what NewsGuard is doing very much violates the First Amendment, but the fascist government we have had has trodden down our rights for YEARS, because arrogant Americans let them.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment I
Also, once again we find out that Trumpy isn’t pro free speech and freedom of the press after all, and is actively working with the perceived libtards to censor and determine what we can and cannot see. Birds of the same flock together.
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[23] Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. [24] Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. [25] This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. [26] Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear. [27] I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?Jeremiah 13:23-27
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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