This is more of a headsup, this outfit which hasn't been around long, a few years or less, is judging websites, news content.
Fact Check: Media Blacklisters NewsGuard Promotes Fake News
John Nolte
NewsGuard is yet another Rorschach test that says everything about the provincial, close-minded, and deceptive blacklisters who created it and nothing about its intended targets.
Let’s start with NewsGuard’s decision to place the Drudge Report on its blacklist. How is it possible to blacklist Drudge as unreliable when Drudge mostly aggregates news from other sites, and when Drudge does break news, it is never fake?
Blacklisting an aggregation site is not only ludicrous; it is revealing about NewsGuard’s own lack of credibility, transparency, and biases.
Read more at: https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/01/24/fact-check-media-blacklisters-newsguard-promotes-fake-news-violates-standards/
Okay, we get it, it's Breitbart saying this but if one looks further, health oriented websites have come out against it.
BEWARE: New Plan to Censor Health Websites
Written by Dr. Joseph Mercola
(video at link):
December 04, 2018
Story at-a-glance
NewsGuard will rate online news brands based on nine criteria of credibility and transparency, ostensibly to help readers judge what i
is true in order to avoid fake news. It is currently focusing on U.S.-based media brands, but plans to expand online site reviews globally
NewsGuard received much of its startup funds from Publicis Groupe, a global communications group whose history of clients includes the drug and tobacco industries
NewsGuard, clearly influenced by Wall Street and indebted to big industries through its funding, is being positioned to eliminate competition, which will allow Big Industry to reign as the leading shaper of public opinion and government health policies
Read more at: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/12/04/newsguard.aspx
So, that I find this other article unrelated to politics says something to me. It's not just whom this "Newsguard" has put on its blacklist (including Drudge which as the Breitbart story makes clear, largely aggregates news sources, CBS and so on). So, one should watch out for this Newsguard.