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Attacking The Watchdog: How Media Rating Site NewsGuard Ended Up As A Target For GOP Lawmakers And Regulators


The site has been targeted by the incoming chairs of FCC and the FTC.

When House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer launched an investigation into NewsGuard and appeared on Newsmax last summer, one of its star personalities, Rob Schmitt, said “their goal is obviously to bully conservative media out of existence.” Another outlet on the right, One America News Network, also claimed NewsGuard was part of a “radical left” effort to “shut down all opposition,” and it reported on Comer’s investigation into the media ratings service. In a letter to Carr earlier this month, Brill and Crovitz has pushed back on other claims, including that it rated that Chinese state media as credible, and that they judged the Covid lab leak theory as misinformation.

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