‘Misinformation Fingerprints: ’ The Pentagon Awarded ‘Fact-Checking’ Org NewsGuard a $750K Contract A year ago
In yet more evidence of the particular federal government/Deep State’ h vested interest in advancing internet censorship (or, as they call it up, tackling “ misinformation” ), the Department of Protection awarded NewsGuard Technologies a $750, 000 contract in September of 2021 for the organization’ s “ false information fingerprints” project. NewsGuard, that can be the subject of extensive Breitbart Information reporting, is an establishment-backed […]#@@#@!!
In yet more evidence of the federal government/Deep State’s vested interest in evolving internet censorship (or, as they call it, tackling “ misinformation” ), the Department of Defense awarded NewsGuard Systems a $750, 000 agreement in September of 2021 for the organization’s “ misinformation fingerprints” project.
NewsGuard, which has been the topic of extensive Breitbart News confirming, is an establishment-backed project that aims to “ rate” news outlets, policing the internet by telling customers which news sources could be trusted and which ones are not able to.
According to USASpending. gov , the contract was awarded for NewsGuard’s “ misinformation fingerprints” project, which this describes as a “ a catalogue of known hoaxes, falsehoods and misinformation narratives that are spreading online. ”
It is unclear if hoaxes embraced by establishment, such as the notion that material found on Hunter Biden’s laptop was “ Ruskies disinformation, ” are in NewsGuard’s “ misinformation fingerprints” database.
NewsGuard’s very own co-founder, Steve Brill, spread that fake claim , as did advisory board member and notorious political partisan Michael Hayden .
According to NewsGuard , the “ misinformation fingerprints” task aims to power AI surveillance of disapproved information:
NewsGuard’s growing database of Misinformation Fingerprints™, a catalogue of known hoaxes, falsehoods and misinformation narratives that are growing online. The dataset for each narrative includes a description of every hoax and why it is false, examples of stories, social media marketing posts, videos, and other articles containing the hoax, and related keywords and hashtags. Because these elements— language, hashtags, etc . — are exclusive to each hoax, each “ fingerprint” becomes a distinctive identifier that can be combined with AI and social listening equipment to identify the initial source of the particular hoax and instances in which the hoax is repeated or amplified on social networks or the open web.
