{"id":1396379,"date":"2022-03-23T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396379"},"modified":"2022-03-23T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:00:56","slug":"media-research-center-newsguard-gives-perfect-ratings-to-outlets-that-spread-false-claims-about-biden-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-research-center-newsguard-gives-perfect-ratings-to-outlets-that-spread-false-claims-about-biden-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Research Center: NewsGuard Gives Perfect Ratings to Outlets that Spread False Claims About Biden Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-research-center-newsguard-gives-perfect-ratings-to-outlets-that-spread-false-claims-about-biden-laptop%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396379&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">NewsGuard gives perfect 100\/100 \u201ccredibility\u201d ratings to news organizations that helped bury the Hunter Biden \u201claptop from hell\u201d stories, one of the most consequential stories of the 2020 presidential cycle and beyond, according to a report by the Media Research Center.<\/p>\n<p>The news-rating project, which aims to police the internet by telling users which news sources can be trusted and which ones cannot, continues to give its stamp of approval to news organizations that prioritize politics over newsworthiness.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18873994\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/Hunter_Biden.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hunter Biden<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/joseph-vazquez\/2022\/03\/22\/devil-wears-pravda-newsguard-gives-100100-scores\">Via the Media Research Center<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Left-wing news organizations <em>Politico, The Washington Post<\/em>, Axios and <em>USA Today<\/em> all maligned the Biden bombshell by the New York Post as possibly part of a 2020 \u201cdisinformation\u201d campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The story documented purported emails from Hunter Biden reportedly exposing the alleged corrupt dealings of him and his father in Ukraine. The New York Times finally authenticated the emails the liberal media tried to dismiss for months, but also tied the documents to an ongoing federal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, NewsGuard has the outlets rated with perfect 100\/100 scores for \u201ccredibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Breitbart News previously reported, NewsGuard co-founder Steve Brill told CNBC in 2020 that he believed that the Biden laptop story was likely a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/03\/17\/newsguard-ultimate-fake-news-humiliation-fact-checking-orgs-co-founder-called-hunter-bidens-laptop-a-hoax\/\">hoax perpetrated by the Russians<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brill has yet to publicly recant that opinion, which was spread throughout the media at the time, and contributed to the discrediting of a factually accurate story about one of the most powerful political families in the United States.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In comments to Breitbart News, NewsGuard general manager Matt Skibinski stressed that his organization does take the severity of factual errors into account when assessing news sites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur criteria for all of our ratings are transparent, and our specific rationale for each site\u2019s rating is explained in detail in our Nutrition Label for each site,\u201d said Skibinski. \u201cUltimately, readers can view our detailed explanations and judge for themselves whether or not they agree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do weigh the severity of the false claim published in assessing whether a site repeatedly published false content \u2014 for example, we focus on clearly and significantly false claims, not minor factual errors like misspelling a name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ratings are based on an overall review of the site\u2019s practices, but we often cite specific examples of high profile controversies or reporting errors in our Nutrition Labels, even if such mistakes are relatively infrequent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, you mentioned the UVA case; we explain that error, and the resulting defamation lawsuit, in detail in Rolling Stone\u2019s Nutrition Label so that readers have that context when deciding how much to trust the site.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>NewsGuard\u2019s \u201cNutrition Labels\u201d have yet to been updated to note the news organizations that spread false information about the Hunter Biden laptop, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2021\/04\/01\/npr-corrects-article-that-claimed-hunter-biden-laptop-story-discredited-by-u-s-intelligence\/\">including NPR<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/17\/jen-psaki-repeatedly-spread-disinformation-about-hunter-bidens-laptop\/\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Newsguard advisory board member Michael Hayden, the former Bush Administration CIA director who reinvented himself as an anti-Trump pundit during the 45th President\u2019s first term, went even further. He lent his name to a letter penned by a cabal of former intelligence officials who claimed, similarly without basis, that the laptop from hell was \u201cRussian disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/03\/21\/newsguard-board-member-michael-hayden-yet-to-retract-biden-laptop-russian-disinfo-claim\/\">Like Brill, Hayden has yet to publicly admit he was wrong<\/a>, or apologize for misleading the American public weeks before a presidential election. Hayden remains on the advisory board of NewsGuard, an organization that claims to care about Americans being misled by inaccurate and irresponsible media.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the apparent unwillingness of NewsGuard\u2019s own founders and advisors to correct themselves on the record, it may soon end up in classrooms across America.<\/p>\n<p>The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a far-left teachers union recently partnered with the organization, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/01\/26\/1-7-million-teachers-will-receive-newsguard-licenses-to-spot-disinformation\/\">with NewsGuard licenses to be distributed to 1.7 million teachers who are members of the union<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as far-left teachers across the country are fighting tooth and nail against an energized Republican grassroots, intent on protecting their ability to indoctrinate children in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/education\/2021\/11\/19\/abigail-shrier-activist-teachers-recruit-middle-schoolers-lgbtq-clubs-mock-parents\/\">LGBTQ+ ideology<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/05\/06\/teachers-union-head-defends-indoctrinating-children-with-critical-race-theory\/\">critical race theory<\/a>, and now, apparently, which news sources to trust.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.\u00a0He is the author of\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsGuard gives perfect 100\/100 \u201ccredibility\u201d ratings to news organizations that helped bury the Hunter Biden \u201claptop from hell\u201d stories, one of the most consequential stories of the 2020 presidential cycle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}