by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | January 20, 2019
In an effort to regain control of the narrative, NewsGuard will be on your phone and browser soon. I’ve heard that you will not be able to remove it on certain browsers and devices — there will be no opt-out. The trick here is for our ruling class to tell the masses what is good news and what is not. If you visit an approved news site like ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, etc., you will get a nice green rating… other sites will have either a yellow or red rating to warn you that what you are reading is ‘FAKE NEWS’. The point here is to condition you –like Pavlov’s doggy– to always seek the green light. It’s an emotional signal. This will allow the political ruling class to more effectively herd their livestock to the correct way of thinking, while putting their competition out of business. If they can get away with this thought control gimmick, I’m sure something like Google’s Dragonfly and China’s ‘social credit’ system will be soon to follow here in the West.
BTW: The Smith-Mundt Act of 1945 prohibited the use of propaganda against our own citizens here in the USA; however, The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 now makes it legal for the US State Department –this includes the CIA– and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to use propaganda here on US Citizens. Yes, your Democrats and your Republicans voted this into law.
NewsGuard Advisory Board:
- Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of Homeland Security (George W. Bush administration)
- CFR member: Richard Stengel, former editor of Time magazine and Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy (Obama administration) – video of Richard at CFR:
Richard Stengel (CFR member) justifies domestic propaganda - CFR member: (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)
- CFR member: Don Baer, chairman of Burson, Cohn & Wolfe and former White House Communications Director (Clinton administration)
- Elise Jordan (Michael Hastings’ widow), political analyst, NBC, and former speechwriter for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (CFR member)
- John Battelle, co-founding editor of Wired and founding chief executive of Industry Standard magazines
- CFR member: Jessica Lessin, founder and editor-in-chief of The Information
Additional information:
- Brill and Crovitz Announce Launch of NewsGuard to Fight Fake News
- China has started ranking citizens with a creepy ‘social credit’ system — here’s what you can do wrong, and the embarrassing, demeaning ways they can punish you
- Dragonfly (search engine)
- Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012
- Nolte: Blacklisters at Microsoft’s NewsGuard Label Proven Hoaxes ‘Credible’
- Neocon-Backed NewsGuard, Microsoft’s “Fake News” Nanny, Linked To Pro-Saudi Media Blitz
UPDATE: June 7th, 2019
The Trust Project: Big Media and Silicon Valley’s Weaponized Algorithms Silence Dissent
Given the Trust Project’s rich-get-richer impact on the online news landscape, it is not surprising to find that it is funded by a confluence of tech oligarchs and powerful forces with a clear stake in controlling the flow of news.
After the failure of Newsguard — the news rating system backed by a cadre of prominent neoconservative personalities — to gain traction among American tech and social media companies, another organization has quietly stepped in to direct the news algorithms of tech giants such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.