{"id":1470352,"date":"2022-05-10T14:14:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470352"},"modified":"2022-05-10T14:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T18:14:53","slug":"even-nyu-study-on-left-wing-misinformation-group-finds-news-rating-agency-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-nyu-study-on-left-wing-misinformation-group-finds-news-rating-agency-useless\/","title":{"rendered":"Even NYU Study On Left-Wing Misinformation Group Finds News Rating Agency Useless"},"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\">24<\/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%2Feven-nyu-study-on-left-wing-misinformation-group-finds-news-rating-agency-useless%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=1470352&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/3942821165_3e89492701_k-e1652201907884.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.abl3844\">study<\/a> out Friday revealed that even researchers from New York University could find no benefits that NewsGuard, a popular pro-censorship browser extension, offered to consumers\u2019 ability to identify misinformation while successfully directing readers to other sites deemed credible by the agency\u2019s censors. <\/p>\n<p>A team of academics at New York University\u2019s (NYU) Center for Social Media and Politics studied the news rating agency with a survey of more than 3,000 participants that downloaded the extension. The researchers found readers with \u201chigh-quality\u201d news diets in line with NewsGuard\u2019s ratings were no more likely to answer questions related to the Black Lives Matter movement or Covid-19 accurately than those who otherwise relied on \u201clower-quality\u201d sources.<\/p>\n<p>All respondents were asked to \u201cjudge the veracity of five widely circulated statements\u201d across the two topics, where three were false and two were true. NewGuard\u2019s intervention, however, \u201chad no effect on belief in misinformation about the BLM movement and COVID-19, and it did not measurably affect belief in the true statements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NewsGuard may have had a limited impact on some user traffic to websites deemed unreliable by the news rating agency, however, implementing a social credit system in the information sphere. While researchers did \u201cnot find that randomized exposure to in-browser source reliability information shifts online consumption of news away from unreliable publishers,\u201d they found \u201csuggestive evidence of a substantively meaningful boost in news quality among the heaviest consumers of misinformation.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>NewsGuard\u2019s credibility scores remain subjective, reliant on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsguardtech.com\/about\/why-should-you-trust-us\/\">trained journalists<\/a>\u201d who\u2019ve deemed dissident views unacceptable. Websites declared unreliable include organizations that correctly reported on the biggest scandal of the 2020 election, the Hunter Biden laptop, while groups that dismissed the story as Russian disinformation <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/18\/left-wing-rating-agency-grades-media-that-botched-hunter-biden-story-with-100-percent-credibility\/\">maintain perfect ratings<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/api.newsguardtech.com\/label\/politico.com\">Politico<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/api.newsguardtech.com\/label\/npr.org\">NPR<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/api.newsguardtech.com\/label\/nytimes.com\">The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0maintain a 100\/100 favorability score on their \u201cnutrition label\u201d while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/api.newsguardtech.com\/label\/cbsnews.com\">CBS<\/a> comes in 95\/100, docked five points for merely concealing author names on select pieces.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/api.newsguardtech.com\/label\/nypost.com\">The New York Post<\/a>, on the other hand, suffers a failing grade of 69.5\/100, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/api.newsguardtech.com\/label\/thefederalist.com\">The Federalist<\/a> comes in even lower at 12.5\/100.<\/p>\n<p>NewsGuard is being <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/27\/left-wing-misinformation-group-will-help-teachers-union-indoctrinate-students-with-corrupt-media-propaganda\/\">promoted in schools<\/a> as a means of media literacy despite the service downranking websites found more reliable than legacy institutions on major stories, from the Hunter Biden laptop to cooked-up stories of 2016 Russian collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, for which The New York Times and The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/civil-society\/commentary\/will-new-york-times-washington-post-return-pulitzer-misleading-russia\">won Pulitzers<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsguardtech.com\/\">Partners<\/a> of the news rating agency include the Department of Defense, the World Health Organization (WHO), and Microsoft. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study out Friday revealed that even researchers from New York University could find no benefits that NewsGuard, a popular pro-censorship browser extension, offered to consumers\u2019 ability to identify<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470352","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\/1470352","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470352\/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=1470352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}