{"id":42662,"date":"2019-01-12T13:39:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T18:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42662"},"modified":"2019-01-12T13:39:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T18:39:04","slug":"how-a-neocon-backed-fact-checker-plans-to-wage-war-on-independent-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42662","title":{"rendered":"How a NeoCon-Backed \u201cFact Checker\u201d Plans to Wage War on Independent Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEWSGUARD EXPOSED<\/div>\n

How a NeoCon-Backed \u201cFact Checker\u201d Plans to Wage War on Independent Media <\/a><\/h3>\n

As Newsguard\u2019s project advances, it will soon become almost impossible to avoid this neocon-approved news site\u2019s ranking systems on any technological device sold in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 <\/b>Soon after the social media \u201cpurge\u201d of independent media sites and pages this past October, a top neoconservative insider \u2014 Jamie Fly \u2014 was caught<\/a> stating that the mass deletion of anti-establishment and anti-war pages on Facebook and Twitter was \u201cjust the beginning\u201d of a concerted effort by the U.S. government and powerful corporations to silence online dissent within the United States and beyond.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

As MintPress News<\/i> Editor-in-Chief Mnar Muhawesh recently wrote<\/a>, MintPress<\/i> was informed that it was under review by an organization called Newsguard Technologies, which described itself to MintPress<\/i> as simply a \u201cnews rating agency\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

More troubling still, Newsguard \u2014 by virtue of its deep connections to government and Silicon Valley \u2014 is lobbying to have its rankings of news sites installed by default<\/i> on computers in U.S. public libraries, schools, and universities as well as on all smartphones and computers sold in the United States.<\/p>\n

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NEWSGUARD EXPOSED How a NeoCon-Backed \u201cFact Checker\u201d Plans to Wage War on Independent Media As Newsguard\u2019s project advances, it will soon become almost impossible to avoid this neocon-approved news site\u2019s ranking systems on any technological device sold in the United States. MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Soon after the social media \u201cpurge\u201d of independent media sites and pages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,14851,9745,23910,561,23909,23908,599,843,22021],"class_list":["post-42662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-fact-checking","tag-independent-media","tag-mint-press-news","tag-neocons","tag-news-site-ranking-system","tag-newsguard","tag-oligarchs","tag-us-government","tag-whitney-webb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42663,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42662\/revisions\/42663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}