Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) revisited a huge Media Research Center (MRC) victory over a public-private partnership to censor publications on the right.
McCormick spoke with MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider about the successful attempt to add a ban on government funding of NewsGuard censorship campaigns into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). McCormick issued a dire warning: the government is seeking to “weaponize the agencies like NewsGuard.”
McCormick said, “Now they want to use our taxpayer monies in the defense industry to hire industries like–NewsGuard which would keep people off of Newsmax and other conservative venues.” He explained how NewsGuard rates publications according to its biased standards of what is “true” or “factual” and said that failing their metrics will have severe consequences for…
