Corporations, social media companies—even libraries—handsomely pay these third-party online nannies to label anything the left disagrees with as “fake news.” Hiding behind fact-checkers, they then deplatform or censor organizations like PragerU...taking zero responsibility for censorship!
Upon learning of our abysmal rating that led to JW Player dropping PragerU as a client, PragerU CEO Marissa Streit contacted NewsGuard.
"I am writing today to bring your attention to an urgent matter that I assume is a mistake by NewsGuard. Sadly, this mistake is damaging PragerU's reputation and costing our nonprofit millions of dollars."
—Marissa Streit, PragerU CEO
Marissa spoke with NewsGuard executive Eric Effron. He assured her that NewsGuard is unbiased and protects Americans from disinformation. Curiously, Eric didn’t seem to know much about PragerU (even though NewsGuard had already given us a bad rating).
Over the next month, NewsGuard asked PragerU questions under the guise of improving our score. NewsGuard inquired about everything from why we don’t publish our donors’ names (which we would NEVER do) to our perspectives on COVID-19 and Planned Parenthood. Regardless of the facts and sources PragerU provided, our score wasn’t changed. They never intended to be fair.
Clearly, NewsGuard simply thinks our values and ideas shouldn’t exist online.
"The chain of emails we've exchanged with you and your team has exposed your organization for what it is—an online media bully run by wealthy left-wing activists pushing their agenda."
—Marissa Streit, PragerU CEO
This reality is...fact-checkers like NewsGuard are the political elite’s tool for censorship. Funded by giant corporations protecting their power and bottom lines, these self-appointed “Arbiters of Truth” are determining what is true and what is false.
Is this the America you want to live in?
