{"id":68618,"date":"2024-06-13T14:39:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68618"},"modified":"2024-06-13T14:39:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:39:32","slug":"newsguard-co-ceo-lack-of-internet-gatekeepers-allows-dangerous-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68618","title":{"rendered":"NewsGuard Co-CEO: Lack of Internet Gatekeepers Allows Dangerous Opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NewsGuard Co-CEO: Lack of Internet Gatekeepers Allows Dangerous Opinions<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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NewsGuard is fully a product of a particular era \u2013 co-founded in 2018 by Steven Brill, and there to provide \u201ca rating system\u201d for news websites.<\/p>\n

Opponents of what\u00a0NewsGuard<\/a>, Brill, et al. stand for would say that era unfortunately continues. Critics sum it up as NewsGuard (a browser extension and app)\u00a0turning censorship into a business<\/a>\u00a0model, with a clear political bias, while working with governments, intelligence communities, and corporations.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnti-misinformation\u201d and \u201cbrand safety rating for advertisers\u201d is the business NewsGuard insists it\u2019s in, and just this week Brill had the opportunity to speak for C-SPAN and rail against anything from a lack of internet gatekeepers deciding who can become a publisher, to branding as \u201cdangerous\u201d people\u2019s right to express different opinions on issues like health and election results.<\/p>\n

Brill appears to like the idea of the internet providing unprecedented reach (and therefore influence) \u2013 but only when that power of publishing online is to his liking.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone who has a crazy opinion about the Covid vaccine can reach as many people as Dr. Fauci can,\u201d Brill lamented,\u00a0as he and the C-SPAN host<\/a>\u00a0agreed about the need for internet gatekeepers who would decide who can, and must not, be allowed to become an online publisher.<\/p>\n

Other statements made by Brill reek of elitism, and why wouldn\u2019t they \u2013 his company counts former CIA, NATO, and DHS chiefs among its advisers.<\/p>\n

And so Brill doesn\u2019t like it at all that on the internet, (theoretically at least) everyone has the same chance to express opinion and be heard. That\u2019s \u201cdangerous,\u201d he claims, using the issue of health-related information and expertise to \u201csoften the blow\u201d of the very idea that free speech represents danger.<\/p>\n

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NewsGuard Co-CEO: Lack of Internet Gatekeepers Allows Dangerous Opinions NewsGuard is fully a product of a particular era \u2013 co-founded in 2018 by Steven Brill, and there to provide \u201ca rating system\u201d for news websites. Opponents of what\u00a0NewsGuard, Brill, et al. stand for would say that era unfortunately continues. Critics sum it up as NewsGuard […]<\/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":[120,33879,23908,33878],"class_list":["post-68618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-didi-rankovic","tag-newsguard","tag-reclaim-the-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68618","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=68618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68619,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68618\/revisions\/68619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}