NewsGuard’s co-CEO advocated financial censorship and sneered at the American principle of free speech in a recent interview.
During a C-SPAN appearance June 9 to promote his new book, The Death of Truth, NewsGuard co-CEO Steven Brill sneeringly and hypocritically pontificated about those who “actually believe in reality, and people who don’t.”
Brill mourned the fact that anyone can post online without censorship from “gatekeepers,” making the following shockingly anti-free speech statement: “The idea that everybody can have an opinion, [for instance] about who won the election … I think that is a dangerous idea.”
While touting himself and NewsGuard as online arbiters of truth versus “misinformation,” Brill himself made glaringly inaccurate statements.
“The conservatives argue that the social media platforms veer to the left,…
