NewsGuard

Tom Olohan | October 24, 2025

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales couldn’t keep his facts straight while defending the online encyclopedia, admitting it relies on legacy media while downplaying its effective blacklist of right-leaning outlets.

Tom Olohan | August 4, 2025

MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider called out a conspiracy to choke out pro-Trump media and pro-free speech platforms by stripping them of advertising dollars.

Luis Cornelio | July 11, 2025

NewsGuard has waved its white flag in its censorship fight against “misinformation” and “disinformation,” claiming it is eliminating these terms in favor of alternative language. The move marks the left’s latest rebranding effort following the…

Tom Olohan | July 7, 2025

Under a new law, Florida won’t be giving a dollar to anti-free speech groups seeking to silence disfavored media outlets by choking off their advertising revenue.

Tom Olohan | June 25, 2025

Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson just secured a huge win in his fight against an advertising giant, prompting it to renounce a coercive tool aimed at choking out disfavored media. 

Luis Cornelio | April 30, 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio pulled no punches in criticizing some of the Biden-era censorship initiatives within the federal government—even saying his agency had secretly created a dossier on a current Trump administration official.

Catherine Salgado | April 3, 2025

Nina Jankowicz, the former head of the defunct federal censorship entity the Disinformation Governance Board, denied during a Tuesday congressional hearing that federal officials had worked to censor free speech. A recently released MRC study…

Tim Kilcullen | February 24, 2025

Federal government taxpayer dollars were awarded to so-called media ratings firm NewsGuard.

NewsGuard first was awarded money by the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) in the amount of “$25,…

Tom Olohan | February 6, 2025

An investigative journalist has revealed that the censorship regime at Microsoft remains intact and unrepentant, despite the pro-free speech ultimatum that accompanied the 2024 presidential election.

Joseph Vazquez | January 3, 2025

The Washington Post made a pathetic attempt to paint website traffic cop NewsGuard as some kind of victim of right-wing oppression, all while downplaying the years-long dystopian vendetta it waged against right-leaning media.

Catherine Salgado | December 30, 2024

Egregiously biased online “credibility” arbiter NewsGuard rates several right-leaning U.S. media outlets as less reliable than several state media outlets from tyrannical foreign powers Qatar, communist China and Russia.

Catherine Salgado | December 27, 2024

After Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr challenged NewsGuard’s blatant bias against right-leaning media, the ratings firm actually complained about supposedly unfair targeting. No, we’re not kidding.

Catherine Salgado | December 26, 2024

Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Ted Cruz (R-TX) has called out a major tech giant for its ties to a dystopian online ratings firm.

Luis Cornelio | December 19, 2024

The Democratic-led Senate has passed the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a provision that bans the Pentagon from funneling taxpayers’ dollars to media ratings firms that target news outlets that do not align with leftist…

Luis Cornelio | December 13, 2024

House Republicans, led by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), have once again blocked the Pentagon from funneling taxpayer dollars to fund entities that censor news outlets not aligned with leftist dogma.

Joseph Vazquez | December 10, 2024

It looks like the Federal Communications Commission under Brendan Carr won’t be the only agency looking to tear down the government-backed dystopian activities of website traffic cop NewsGuard.

Donald Perkins, Luis Cornelio | December 4, 2024

Federal Communications Commissioner and incoming Chair Brendan Carr is offering details on how he will succeed in his pledge to, once and for all, “smash” Big Tech’s censorship regime, including entities like NewsGuard.

Joseph Vazquez | November 15, 2024

Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr utilized Media Research Center analysis to put Big Tech and so-called media ratings firm NewsGuard on notice.

Catherine Salgado | October 29, 2024

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have taken leftist, biased media ratings firm NewsGuard to task for its ties to the Biden-Harris administration.

Tom Olohan | October 25, 2024

In a shocking move, the official page dedicated to Free Speech Week promoted an event devoted to a new and pernicious type of censorship: media literacy.