Mike Ritland

That 750,000 Pentagon grant to NewsGuard was not explicitly for NewsGuard to create advertiser blacklists to target Stephen Crowder and Ben Shapiro and Prager University and Fox News hosts and virtually every populist right-wing media conduit for news. the man who is now the sitting democratically elected president of the United States. But it's the same Raytheon military, Raytheon media thing.

That 750,000 Pentagon grant to NewsGuard was not explicitly for NewsGuard to create advertiser blacklists to target Stephen Crowder and Ben Shapiro and Prager University and Fox News hosts and virtually every populist right-wing media conduit for news. the man who is now the sitting democratically elected president of the United States. But it's the same Raytheon military, Raytheon media thing.

So we need to create firewalls so there's no domestic bleed. If you volunteer to accept... a U.S. government contract for foreign-facing work from any foreign-facing agency, whether that's state, whether that's aid, whether that's DOD, whether that's a confidential CIA service. It's another thing, right? Reuters does CIA services. They have a whole intelligence assistance wing.

So we need to create firewalls so there's no domestic bleed. If you volunteer to accept... a U.S. government contract for foreign-facing work from any foreign-facing agency, whether that's state, whether that's aid, whether that's DOD, whether that's a confidential CIA service. It's another thing, right? Reuters does CIA services. They have a whole intelligence assistance wing.

So we need to create firewalls so there's no domestic bleed. If you volunteer to accept... a U.S. government contract for foreign-facing work from any foreign-facing agency, whether that's state, whether that's aid, whether that's DOD, whether that's a confidential CIA service. It's another thing, right? Reuters does CIA services. They have a whole intelligence assistance wing.

So they're getting paid By the CIA and the DOD, again, this is the, you know, it's not the Reuters media line, but it's the, you know, it's the sort of strategic intelligence and whatnot. But this problem pops up everywhere with all these news. But then you do have another problem. So you have that USAID Truman show that comes up from that.

So they're getting paid By the CIA and the DOD, again, this is the, you know, it's not the Reuters media line, but it's the, you know, it's the sort of strategic intelligence and whatnot. But this problem pops up everywhere with all these news. But then you do have another problem. So you have that USAID Truman show that comes up from that.

So they're getting paid By the CIA and the DOD, again, this is the, you know, it's not the Reuters media line, but it's the, you know, it's the sort of strategic intelligence and whatnot. But this problem pops up everywhere with all these news. But then you do have another problem. So you have that USAID Truman show that comes up from that.

But then you also have the other one, which is that we actually do fund these, a lot of these U.S. media outlets online. to operate in foreign countries. And then they also operate at home, so they sort of are being a direct arm of the State Department for what the grant is doing, and then they're coming back and using that. So, for example, a great example is like our fact-checkers.

But then you also have the other one, which is that we actually do fund these, a lot of these U.S. media outlets online. to operate in foreign countries. And then they also operate at home, so they sort of are being a direct arm of the State Department for what the grant is doing, and then they're coming back and using that. So, for example, a great example is like our fact-checkers.

But then you also have the other one, which is that we actually do fund these, a lot of these U.S. media outlets online. to operate in foreign countries. And then they also operate at home, so they sort of are being a direct arm of the State Department for what the grant is doing, and then they're coming back and using that. So, for example, a great example is like our fact-checkers.

Independent fact-checkers. My asthma. There's no such thing as an independent fact-checker. This entire field was created by the U.S. State Department. I would say with a set spike relationship, a sort of Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal relationship with the UK Foreign Office because this was a transatlantic thing.

Independent fact-checkers. My asthma. There's no such thing as an independent fact-checker. This entire field was created by the U.S. State Department. I would say with a set spike relationship, a sort of Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal relationship with the UK Foreign Office because this was a transatlantic thing.

Independent fact-checkers. My asthma. There's no such thing as an independent fact-checker. This entire field was created by the U.S. State Department. I would say with a set spike relationship, a sort of Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal relationship with the UK Foreign Office because this was a transatlantic thing.

The UK Foreign Office funds a ton of these as well, but it's one foreign policy blob there. Why do places like the Poynter Institute – Almost every one of the credentialed fact-checkers for Facebook and Reddit and Twitter 1.0 and TikTok and Twitch and YouTube, almost every single one of these groups are either directly or partnered with a U.S. state department.

The UK Foreign Office funds a ton of these as well, but it's one foreign policy blob there. Why do places like the Poynter Institute – Almost every one of the credentialed fact-checkers for Facebook and Reddit and Twitter 1.0 and TikTok and Twitch and YouTube, almost every single one of these groups are either directly or partnered with a U.S. state department.

The UK Foreign Office funds a ton of these as well, but it's one foreign policy blob there. Why do places like the Poynter Institute – Almost every one of the credentialed fact-checkers for Facebook and Reddit and Twitter 1.0 and TikTok and Twitch and YouTube, almost every single one of these groups are either directly or partnered with a U.S. state department.

It's because we use this international fact-checking network, which is housed under the Poynter Institute. as the way to get foreign countries to censor their internet, to stop the rise of politicians, whether they be right-wing populist or left-wing socialist sometimes, to stop them, to censor their internets.

It's because we use this international fact-checking network, which is housed under the Poynter Institute. as the way to get foreign countries to censor their internet, to stop the rise of politicians, whether they be right-wing populist or left-wing socialist sometimes, to stop them, to censor their internets.

It's because we use this international fact-checking network, which is housed under the Poynter Institute. as the way to get foreign countries to censor their internet, to stop the rise of politicians, whether they be right-wing populist or left-wing socialist sometimes, to stop them, to censor their internets.