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    I saw something on this yesterday in the fraud Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on April 25, 2019, 7:24 pm, in reply to "Media trust ranker NewsGuard launches in UK to counter fake news"

    and went to their website to dig around. Don't really want to add it to my browser but without doing so I couldn't see anything on the rating other than the four examples they gave on their site, which were something like this:

    Forbes: Green ink and ticks everywhere
    RT: Red ink and crosses everywhere.

    You can see their "Advisory Board" though:

    Members of the advisory board provide strategic advice to NewsGuard. They play no role in the determinations of ratings or the Nutrition Label write ups of websites unless otherwise noted.

    Don Baer, chairman of Burson, Cohn & Wolfe and former White House Communications Director (Clinton administration)

    John Battelle, co-founding editor of Wired and founding chief executive of Industry Standard magazines

    (Ret.) General Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA, former Director of the National Security Agency and former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (George W. Bush administration)

    Elise Jordan, political analyst, NBC, and former speechwriter for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

    Jessica Lessin, founder and editor-in-chief of The Information.

    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Prime Minister of Denmark, former secretary general of NATO and founder of the Alliance of Democracies Foundation

    Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of Homeland Security (George W. Bush administration)

    Richard Sambrook, director of the Center for Journalism at Cardiff University, former Director of Global News for the BBC. (Sambrook provides editing and editorial guidance for NewsGuard’s UK Nutrition Labels.)

    Richard Stengel, former editor of Time magazine and Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy (Obama administration)

    Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia

    Which tells you all you need to know.

    Also, in the "updates to ratings" section they have this:

    4/11/19: wikileaks.org: This Nutrition Label was updated to reflect recent news stories related to the site. Its score and performance on NewsGuard’s criteria did not change. Its overall rating is still red.

    Red being "untrustworthy/bad/evil/burn it" according to them so that really clarifies what they are up to. The one publishing entity that has NEVER had to issue a correction or withdraw a story is untrustworthy according to this collection of deep state w.hores.

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