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NewsGuard AI Censorship Targets People Who Read Primary Sources To Fact-Check The News

Artificial intelligence censorship tools are making sure you never read this article or share it with anyone it might persuade.

This article seems to me to be pretty pro Trumpist.

My problem is:

much as I dislike Donald Trump – purveyor of chaos , this article is probably true

JOY PULLMAN @JOYPULLMANN MARCH 07, 2024

NewsGuard announced last week it’s using AI to automatically prevent American citizens from seeing information online that challenges government and corporate media claims about elections ahead of the 2024 voting season.

“[P]latforms and search engines” including Microsoft’s Bing use NewsGuard’s “ratings” to stop people from seeing disfavored information sources, information, and topics in their social media feeds and online searches. Now censorship is being deployed not only by humans but also by automated computer code, rapidly raising an Iron Curtain around internet speech.

Newsguard rates The Federalist as a “maximum” risk for publishing Democrat-disapproved information, even though The Federalist accurately reports major stories about which NewsGuard-approved outlets continually spread disinformation and misinformation……………….

Newsguard rates The Federalist as a “maximum” risk for publishing Democrat-disapproved information, even though The Federalist accurately reports major stories about which NewsGuard-approved outlets continually spread disinformation and misinformation.

“The purpose of these taxpayer-funded projects is to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-powered censorship and propaganda tools that can be used by governments and Big Tech to shape public opinion by restricting certain viewpoints or promoting others,” says a recent congressional report about AI censorship. These “…projects threaten to help create a censorship regime that could significantly impede the fundamental First Amendment rights of millions of Americans, and potentially do so in a manner that is instantaneous and largely invisible to its victims.”

Numerous federal agencies are funding AI censorship tools, including the U.S. Department of State, the subject of a December lawsuit from The Federalist, The Daily Wire, and the state of Texas. The report last month from the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government reveals shocking details about censorship tools funded by the National Science Foundation, one of hundreds of federal agencies.

It says NSF has tried to hide its activities from the elected lawmakers who technically control NSF’s budget, including planning to take five years to return open-records requests legally required to be returned within 20 to 60 days under normal circumstances. NSF and the projects it funded also targeted for censorship media organizations that reported critically on their use of taxpayer funds.

“In my dream world,” censorship technician Scott Hale told NSF grantmakers, people like him would use aggregate data of the speech censored on social media to develop “automated detection” algorithms that immediately censor banned speech online, without any further human involvement.

“Misinformation” that NSF-funded AI scrubs from the internet includes “undermining trust in mainstream media,” the House report says. It also works to censor election and vaccine information the government doesn’t like. One censorship tool taxpayers funded through the NSF “sought to help train the children of military families to help influence the beliefs of military families,” a demographic traditionally more skeptical of Democrat rule.

Federal agencies use nonprofits they fund as cutouts to avoid constitutional restraints that prohibit governments from censoring even false speech. As Foundation for Freedom Online’s Director Mike Benz told Tucker Carlson and journalist Jan Jekielek in recent interviews, U.S. intelligence agencies are highly involved in censorship, using it essentially to control the U.S. government by controlling public opinion. A lawsuit at the Supreme Court, Murthy v. Missouri, could restrict federal involvement in some of these censorship efforts………………………………………  https://thefederalist.com/2024/03/07/ai-censorship-targets-people-who-read-primary-sources-to-fact-check-the-news/—

March 12, 2024 - Posted by | media, secrets,lies and civil liberties

10 Comments »

  1. dont get sucked into the nonsense. Both sides are wrong. Why cant people get that? Both of sides are nuclearist. Both are exploitative rich.both are doing nothing about climate change. Both warmonkeys. Why buy into such phoney idiological bullshit.

    Comment by Jdhd | March 12, 2024 | Reply

    • I’m not “buying into phoney idealogical bullshit”. I’m trying to sift through it all, to find a few grains of truth.

      Comment by Christina Macpherson | March 12, 2024 | Reply

  2. you stupid woman. These are the same gits who stacked tge supreme court w federalists to deny raped women or women who will die in childbirth, the right to abortion. How can a person like u be so ignorant. There are no two sides anymore hust two aspects of the smae beast.almost all msm in the us is propaganda. The fascist racist devils will do the same thing to the empirialists fascists

    Wtf up moron. Whatbare u trying to be another mining awareness.

    Comment by Jshe | March 12, 2024 | Reply

    • mmm I think that you might not like me very much, Jshe.  I m not sure whom you mean, when you say “the same gits who stacked the Supreme Court”.  But I do agree that “all msm in the USA is propaganda”. I’d go further - everything I read is, to some extent. propaganda. All writers have their bias. 

      I am trying to be “another mining awareness”? Not sure what you mean here. But there was a “Mining Awareness” commenter who changed from being an opponent of the nuclear industry to being very right-wing. I gave up on her. Looks as if you, and some others are giving up on me. Such is life – as Ned Kelly said, just before they hanged him.

      Comment by Christina Macpherson | March 12, 2024 | Reply

  3. The federalists want to abandon school lunch programs, at an all time high of child hunger in the usa. You need to takenthis down lady. Simply sadistic and evil.

    Comment by Maj | March 12, 2024 | Reply

    • well, thank you, Maj. “Sadistic and evil”. Is that me, or The Federalist? Well, I know nowt about The Federalist. My guess is that it’s a right-wing publication that probably favours Trump. The thing is, While I am sceptical of all propaganda, even the evil right-wing publications can tell some truths, some facts. I think that at least the extract that I published has drawn attention to NewsGuard and the fact that ” using AI to automatically prevent American citizens from seeing information online that challenges government and corporate media claims”. Yes, I would be aware of The Federalist being biased. I expect readers to use their brains, and assess the reliability or otherwise of news sources.

      Comment by Christina Macpherson | March 12, 2024 | Reply

      • you are encouraging murder. There is scumbag russel brand . He went to american somoa, to push the zionist lies about palestinians that are justifying the genocide . american samoa voted uncommited to biden. scumbags like you who promote fad, celebrity liars like greenwald and brand. the infamous fascist racist thiel , financed the rapist russell brand, to go to american somoa to intimidate and sidetrack people trying to do something about democracy. shame on you. thiel used his billions, to disenfranchise millions of voters for the Republicans  and trump in 4 elections. thiel.has used palantir to disenfranchise voters in multiple states claiming they were felons when they were not. What a horrible old git you are. In Australia anyone can vote.
        Ive seen whole black communities  turned away from being able to vote in Jim crow states, by poll workers and cops in the bush election and trump reign of terror. you evil old woman. if non whites and other protesters had went to the capital during the trump coup, they would have been shot and murdered in mass
        Innocent officers killed in the coup attempt trump used and tried to use phoney electors. we all know what bush Jr  did.  Extrajudicial murders by trump
        They are using things like this as a setup for a reign of terror. In allowing  such evil nonsense to be put up you are Bing evil. in brazil the brazen putsch leaders are in jail. bolosonaro had to flea but not in fascist racist usa kkk Jim crow usa

        Comment by Nl | March 13, 2024

      • NI – this is the last time that comments from you will be published, or even read at a tall. Criticism is one thing. Nasty personal attacks are something else. and will not be tolerated.

        Comment by Christina Macpherson | March 13, 2024

  4. Instead of the CIA and the State Department funding attempts to overturn the governments or slank elections of “dictators” we favor, or as FDR once said “our son of a bitch,” that we want that is favorable to our big corporations and US Foreign Policy, they now use the National Endowment for Democracy “to promote democracy and democratic institutions in foreign countries. Just like “Radio Free Europe,” and the “Voice of America” propaganda channels blocked by the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pack Nations. So using “Newsguard-AI,” is no surprise. “1984” Newspeak is here. It is just more insidious and hidden. The 1 % want absolute and total control of everything. Until they can find a better “Village Idiot” and political party to control things, Trump is their puppet. They wouldn’t want a rebellion to take them and the government over to have a “check and balance,” on them and their quest for total control & world domination. The “Golden Rule: “Them that has the gold, write the rules.” 6 Multinational Corporations control the news media: News Corp/FOX, Disney/ABC, CBS-Sony, Comcast/Xfinity/GE/NBC/MSNBC/CNBC, CNN/Time-Warner/AOL, VIACOM. Or as my history teacher in high school taught me: “Money talks, B.S. walks and the rest of us are running a very distant third.

    Comment by paulrodenlearning | March 13, 2024 | Reply

  5. oh well. I guess i have run into that news guard even tryimg to see this site. sorry christina. kid just died. born with brain tumors 2 months ago. friend who was exposed to nuclear, had idiopathic kidney failure from plutonium. was on dialysis for 8 years died last week. dont know where to turn. the biden fascists could drop the hammer anytime. like yukon said where they are at. Unsafe to be on the inet anyway. tump starting reign of terror again. dont trust any msm news! Time to get off the inet. so sad and grief stricken. who would have known it would go this way. pray for things to change. pray for the young and the young people

    Comment by Jim O'Neil | March 13, 2024 | Reply


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