{"id":1757483,"date":"2022-11-30T18:02:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T23:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757483"},"modified":"2022-11-30T18:02:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T23:02:39","slug":"google-gives-millions-to-boost-leftist-disinformation-peddlers-of-legacy-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-gives-millions-to-boost-leftist-disinformation-peddlers-of-legacy-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Gives Millions To Boost Leftist Disinformation Peddlers Of Legacy Media"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fgoogle-gives-millions-to-boost-leftist-disinformation-peddlers-of-legacy-media%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=1757483&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>Google and its subsidiary YouTube just gave a $13.2 million grant to the Poynter Institute\u2019s International Fact-Checking Network to combat \u201cmisinformation,\u201d in the Big Tech sites\u2019 \u201csingle largest grant in fact-checking\u201d yet and the latest instance of the medical, political, and media establishments tightening their grip on the free-flowing digital public square.<\/p>\n<p>For years, the world\u2019s elites have been trying to recapture the control they lost to the free flow of information on the internet. They\u2019ve shelled out millions for celebrities like Prince Harry to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/prince-harry-calls-first-amendment-bonkers-faces-backlash-from-cruz-crenshaw-others\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slander<\/a>\u00a0the First Amendment and hand-wring about an alleged \u201cdisinformation\u201d crisis. They\u2019ve pressured individual tech companies to ban\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/28\/youtube-nuked-two-videos-of-a-senate-hearing-on-covid-19-treatments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">content<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/11\/youtube-bans-sen-ron-johnson-for-discussing-early-treatment-of-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">people<\/a>, and entire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/16\/apple-wields-big-tech-power-to-bar-parler-from-rejoining-the-app-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">platforms<\/a>. The Biden administration even tried implementing its own, now-defunct\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/03\/6-dystopian-things-bidens-disinformation-board-pick-nina-jankowicz-has-done\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ministry of Truth<\/a>,\u201d all to convince us that freedom of speech and inquiry is somehow dangerous and that the threat can only be neutralized by \u201ctrusted\u201d experts seizing dominance of the information exchange. <\/p>\n<p>In a Tuesday press release, Google <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/outreach-initiatives\/google-news-initiative\/how-google-and-youtube-are-investing-in-fact-checking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a> the fund, which is expected to open early next year, seeks to \u201chelp fact-checkers to scale existing operations or launch new ones that elevate information, uplift credible sources and reduce the harm of mis- and disinformation around the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, the fund streamlines and centralizes the fact-checking industry on Google and YouTube. This is excellent news for the Poynter Institute, which for years has been attempting to cement the position of the world\u2019s official arbiter of truth. Indeed, if you want to be a valid fact-checking organization, the institute insists you must get Poynter-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/shop\/fact-checking\/mediawise-fact-checking-certificate-winter-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">certified<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Getting verified by Poynter doesn\u2019t mean you abide by facts, though. The greatest silencers of opinions inconvenient for the elites in politics, health, and business are \u201cverified\u201d by Poynter. The website Lead Stories partnered with Facebook in 2021 to \u201cfact check\u201d and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/22\/medical-journal-blasts-facebook-for-using-fake-fact-checks-to-justify-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">censor<\/a>\u00a0a peer-reviewed medical journal that published information about Covid-19 vaccine trials. The fact-checking organization even falsely labeled the respected medical journal as a \u201cnews blog\u201d to discredit its Covid vaccine findings. This is one of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/23\/facebook-targets-the-federalist-with-myopic-fact-check-on-green-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">many<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/14\/facebooks-nonpartisan-fact-checking-arbiter-trashed-republicans-on-russian-propaganda-outlet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fake<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/06\/facebook-fact-checking-site-claims-without-evidence-that-pete-buttigieg-rode-his-bike-all-the-way-to-work-like-a-big-boy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fact<\/a>\u00a0checks from Lead Stories, which is verified by Poynter and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/12\/14\/facebooks-nonpartisan-fact-checking-arbiter-trashed-republicans-on-russian-propaganda-outlet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funded<\/a> in part by Beijing-based ByteDance, the Democratic National Committee, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When nearly 60 Democrat representatives left Texas to block a GOP bill in July 2021, Sen. Ted Cruz said there was \u201cclear legal authority\u201d to arrest, \u201chandcuff and put in leg irons\u201d the legislators upon their return for obstructing the Texas legislature from doing its duties. Politifact\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/11\/the-texas-supreme-court-just-debunked-politifacts-fact-check-of-ted-cruz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">falsely fact-checked<\/a>\u00a0the sitting senator, claiming it is \u201cunclear how the use of the word \u2018arrest\u2019 should be interpreted in this context.\u201d A month later, the Texas Supreme Court overturned an order protecting the lawbreaking legislators from arrest. In doing so, the Texas Supreme Court debunked the Politifact \u201cfact check\u201d in the most officious way possible. Yet Poynter-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/who-pays-for-politifact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">owned<\/a> Politifact has refused \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2021\/jul\/16\/ted-cruz\/laws-surrounding-arrests-texas-democrats-are-far-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even to this day<\/a> \u2014 to correct its \u201cfact check.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, Politifact\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/20\/politifact-is-ticked-that-we-fact-checked-their-false-fact-check-of-our-fact-check-of-their-fact-check\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fake fact-checking<\/a>\u00a0list doesn\u2019t end there. In fact, nearly every one of the Poynter-verified fact-checking organizations has proven themselves to be pathological propagandists, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/05\/30\/reuters-smears-anti-greta-naomi-with-fake-news-fact-check\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reuters<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/07\/30\/left-wing-fact-checker-snopes-is-trying-to-deplatform-babylon-bee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Snopes<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefdrlst.wpengine.com\/2020\/10\/16\/nevertrump-website-the-dispatch-colludes-with-big-tech-to-censor-sba-lists-pro-life-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Dispatch<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/26\/washington-post-fact-check-claims-becerra-never-sued-nuns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Washington Post Fact Checker<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/06\/ridiculous-ap-fact-check-claims-school-boards-association-didnt-ask-biden-to-label-parents-as-domestic-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AP Fact Check<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Poynter was outraged by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Poynter Institute is recapturing control of the masses by streamlining and centralizing the fact-checking industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":1757486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757483","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\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}