Topic: Meet NewsGuard, yet another self-appointed totalitarian watchdog gagging you!

[Libertas]

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/newsguard-misinfo-watchdog-contracts-dod-who-pfizer-microsoft-aft

Just as the Good Lord warned...deceivers will declare Evil as Good and Good as Evil...

If these demonic totalitarians says something is bad...you need it badly!!!

And WHO, Microsoft, Pfizer, DoD & AFT partnering up with this Orwellian BS speaks VOLUMES!

None of these bastards can survive without censorship and propaganda...NONE!

[patentlymn]

Truly disgusting. I think my sister relies on such stuff.
I tried to teach her that credibility is important for eye witness testimony and the like from opinions and conclusions are different. If some analyst reads from several sources on line then the credibility of those source is important but the analyst unless be lied about the sources or content.

Newguard complained about iEarlyGrey, a UK expat living in Russia. As a result, he is banned for one week from youtube for "hate speech." His particular crime was interviewing a woman from the Mariupol maternity hospital who said  they and other people did not hear any planes overhead. Newsguard said the woman's version had been widely debunked.

He later interviewed tow women who said they were inside the Mariupol the theater during the explosion.

https://rumble.com/v2apy9k-banned.-the-war-against-independent-media.html

[Libertas]

Everybody suppresses spins and censors...there is still reports that slip out of Russia about draft resistance, protests etc...they get quashed quickly...Snowden speaks unmolested it appears, but what he says works for Russia though it isn't wrong...pretty much all he said day 1 was true, if anything understated.

It's a very stupid messed up time everywhere.

[Libertas]

Not just NewsGuard being the paid statist bitch of a corrupt increasingly despotic government...there are many more...

The federal government has awarded more than 500-plus contracts or grants related to “misinformation” or “disinformation” since 2020. One predominant area of research pushed by the Department of Defense involves the use of AI and ML technology to monitor or listen to internet “conversations.”

Originally used as a marketing tool for businesses to track discussions about their brands and products and to track competitors, the DOD and other federal agencies are now paying for-profit public relations and communications firms to convert their technology into tools for the government to monitor speech on the internet.

The areas of the internet the companies monitor differ somewhat, and each business offers its own unique AI and ML proprietary technology, but the underlying approach and goals remain identical: The technology under development will “mine” large portions of the internet and identify conversations deemed indicative of an emerging harmful narrative, to allow the government to track those “threats” and adopt countermeasures before the messages go viral.

First, the AI and ML technology under development will mine every conceivable mode of conversation for the government. Consider, for example, the databases monitored by just a few of the companies the government is paying to develop this AI and ML technology.

PeakMetrics, the recipient of a $1.5 million award, tracks millions of news sites, blogs, global social platforms, podcasts, TV and radio, and email newsletters.

Omelas Inc., which received more than $1 million in taxpayer money, culls data from “the most influential newspapers, TV channels, government offices, militant groups, and more across a dozen social networks and messaging apps, thousands of websites, and thousands of RSS feeds.”

Alethea Group, which received a Phase I award of nearly $50,000 to develop a “machine learning tool for proactive disinformation/misinformation detection, assessment, and mitigation,” boasts it covers data sources including mainstream and “fringe” social media platforms, peer-to-peer messaging platforms, blogs and forums, state-affiliated media sites, “gray” propaganda sites, and the dark web.

Newsguard, awarded $750,000 by the DOD, offers two databases, including its unreliable reliability ratings database of thousands of news and information websites and a second database of purported hoaxes.

Primer, which scored a $3 million award to develop its technology, offers a database that looks to news and media data sources, publicly captured images, the dark web, cyberattacks shared by the general public, and classified—presumably for government clients—and unclassified data sources. Primer also partners with Flashpoint, which adds “Telegram, Reddit, Discord, and “the deep and dark web” to the databases mined.

It is also important to recognize that the AI and ML technology under development will not just mine foreign or state-connected actors, but will monitor everyone’s speech. Both the government grants and the web pages of the monitoring companies confirm this reality.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/21/grants-reveal-federal-governments-horrific-plans-to-censor-all-americans-speech/

These statist bitches need to be boycotted, defunded, shut down...any government funds allocated by Congress immediately removed, any unlawful diversions by this corrupt Administration punished to the fullest extent possible.

Our Founders, our ancestors who fought bled and dies for freedom are being desecrated by this rank despotism!  It must and will end.

[Libertas]

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/700-nypd-riot-cops-mobilized-steel-barriers-deployed-ahead-potential-trump-arrest

They always create totalitarian anti-personnel barriers whenever they are planning something nefarious...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chris-rock-tells-crowd-arresting-trump-will-make-him-more-popular-ever

...and I don't expect a bunch of mouth-breathing anti-American statist scumbags to be wary of creating a larger martyr for liberty and justice when they are so thoroughly possessed with demonic Evil...so, strap in...