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Newsmax: Elon Musk calls NewsGuard a ‘Scam’

  |   By Polling+ Staff

Elon Musk is on to the game.

Over there at Newsmax is this headline: https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/elon-musk-newsguard-fact-checker/2023/10/19/id/1138987/

Musk Calls NewsGuard a ‘Scam,’ Demands Its Disbandment

Newsmax reports:

“Elon Musk railed against the left-wing media fact-checker NewsGuard on Thursday, calling the ratings company a “scam” and saying it should be ‘disbanded immediately.’

Musk’s reaction came in the aftermath of a series of posts on his social media site X, formerly known as Twitter.

One came from Foundation for Freedom Online executive director Mike Benz, who claimed NewsGuard, led by adviser and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, worked with the European Union on a disinformation code that would prompt governments to bankrupt alternative news sites. 

Benz highlighted NewsGuard’s business model, which he said combines “disinformation compliance services with censorship laws it promotes.”

‘This is crazy!’ Musk posted, adding if true, ‘the people of Europe deserve an explanation.’

‘Elon, there is no way EU censorship proponents can deny it. NewsGuard bragged about it. EU officers bragged about it. They had formal partnership together. All they can do now is hold their nose & hope their own voters never learn what’s been going on,’ Benz posted in response.

In another post, the CEO of Timcast news, Tim Pool, said NewsGuard issued his platform a strike ‘because we ran 5 stories out of nearly 5,000 that quoted Trump.’

‘They claimed that reporting on Trump’s statements was irresponsible because we should be fact checking him instead and Trump was wrong. They now claim we don’t correct errors because we didn’t respond to their false claims last month,’ Pool posted to X.

‘What a scam! ‘NewsGuard’ should be disbanded immediately,’ Musk responded.”

Well amen to that!

The hard fact here is that the Left is first, last and forever authoritarian –  totalitarian. They love to dissent – but will never allow others to dissent from the leftist world view if they can stop, block or ignore whatever conservative entity is publishing that dissent.

The entire point of NewsGuard is to censor conservatives.

Thankfully, Elon Musk is on to them.