NewsGuard: Fact-Checkers with Too Much Power

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Have you heard of NewsGuard? Its mission is to “counter misinformation on behalf of readers, brands, and democracies.” In other words, it “guards” the news by telling you what you can and cannot trust. Of course, this begs the question: can you trust NewGuard?

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0:00.0	Good news. Thinking for yourself is no longer necessary. The new heroes of the Internet will do it for you.
0:09.0	Companies you've never heard of, but who are watching out for your best interest.
0:14.4	Meet one of them.
0:15.5	They call themselves News Guard, a perfect name, because that's what they do.
0:20.6	They guard the news. They make sure you only get the good stuff, the stuff you can trust. Best of all,
0:27.0	News Guard is backed by Big Pharma, Big Tech, the teachers unions, and even the government.
0:34.0	So if Newsgard says something isn't safe to read,
0:37.4	you know you should scroll on.
0:39.5	I mean, if you can't trust the government,
0:41.6	who can you trust? Wait, you don't trust the government, who can you trust?
0:43.2	Wait, you don't like what I just described?
0:45.8	Sounds more like a nightmare than the world you want to live in?
0:49.5	You like to do your own thinking?
0:51.6	You're perfectly capable of figuring out which sources are credible
0:55.4	and which aren't? That you say is the right and obligation of a free citizen in a free country.
1:02.3	If so, welcome to my world. I'm the CEO of Prager U.
1:06.3	We're fighting against companies like Newsgard every day. We didn't pick the fight.
1:11.8	They did. We have our own take on the events of the day and
1:16.6	the events of yesterday. We're happy to have you make your own judgment on whether we've got
1:21.7	it right or whether we've got it wrong.
1:24.4	But there are many organizations that don't have that attitude, like the aforementioned
1:29.1	Newsgard.
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