So here we have two attempts to censor information, both appearing to come from think tanks and several government officials as advisors on NewsGuard. Which, if were being honest should have a name change to Propaganda Guard because they are guarding propaganda by telling everyone its real news, like the examples stated above. You cant judge sites with a rating of green, orange, blue, gray and red. This isnt a terror advisory, Tom Ridge (I can only guess the idea came from Ridge). When Ridge was the former secretary of Homeland Security under George Bush, he came up with the coded terror alert system after 9/11. The system is elementary at best and doesnt really require any type of thinking to come up with, so who knows who came up with it. But its extremely flawed.



Knowing that both Propaganda Guard (NewsGuard) and PropOrNot had government involvement should scare the sh*t out of you because both companies are about as unbiased as The Washington Post was towards Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election. Both have a stake in the future foreign policy of America; NewsGuard through its former government advisors, and PropOrNot through the more hilariously connected Foreign Policy Research Institute. Neither company has a right to shape the opinions of Americans or anyone else by giving news websites like Activist Post and many others any type of rating. Thats up to the readers themselves to decide, not a shadowy firm with trained analysts who are creating a censorship blacklist of information or opinions they dont like you know, like the ones that hinder corporations or the military industrial complexs forever war machine.