Whitney Webb — Newsguard Turns to EU to Push Controversial Ratings System on Tech Companies, Smears MintPress as “Secretly Supported” by Russia

Censorship watch. Narrative control in full swing. Again, "Putler did it." Haven't these people heard of the story of the boy that called wolf? Or have they forgotten it? It is one of Aesop's fables, after all.

Newsguard co-CEO Steven Brill in Brussels on Tuesday claimed that news sites that have recently criticized Newsguard’s motives — MintPress among them — are “secretly supported” by the Russian government, a claim for which he provided no evidence....

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Newsguard Turns to EU to Push Controversial Ratings System on Tech Companies, Smears MintPress as “Secretly Supported” by Russia
Whitney Webb

Not only narrative control.

But "be afraid of Huawei."

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Whitney Webb — How a NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans to Wage War on Independent Media

Prediction: This is going to backfire big time. The boy has cried wolf too many times.

I  for one will be looking for the red flags to identify the real news.

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How a NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans to Wage War on Independent Media

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