_WHAT’S HAPPENING_

NewsGuard, the widely-cited media watchdog that rates news outlets on a 100-point credibility scale, has been marketing its data to artificial intelligence companies since 2023 to help train chatbots to identify "trustworthy" sources.

But a Washington Free Beacon investigation reveals a disturbing trend: the company routinely rates Chinese state-run propaganda outlets as more reliable than prominent conservative news sources.

_THE FACTS_

  • NewsGuard rates news outlets on a 0 to 100 scale using nine credibility criteria.

  • In 2023, NewsGuard started selling data to AI firms that identify which news outlets it considers reliable, to avoid “misinformation.”

  • NewsGuard received a $750,000 contract from the Pentagon in 2021 and cut ties with the Biden administration's AI regulatory efforts.

  • China Daily, owned by the Chinese Communist Party, receives a reliability score of 44.5.

  • NewsGuard claims China Daily "does not publish false or egregiously misleading content at a significant level.”

  • The conservative outlet Newsmax receives a score of 20, less than half of China Daily’s rating.

  • One America News Network scores 22.5; The Federalist scores 17.5.

  • China Global Television Network (CGTN), described by NewsGuard as a Chinese Communist Party “mouthpiece,” scores 44.5.

  • The Daily Wire scores 49.5, just five points higher than CGTN.

_OUR TAKE_

One of the country's most influential media-rating organizations places more trust in CCP propaganda than in right-leaning news outlets. Its claim that these ratings merely help combat "misinformation" rings completely hollow.

NewsGuard is the same company whose co-founder dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story as a "hoax" despite mountains of evidence to the contrary. Now this company is helping train AI to systematically favor left-leaning and foreign propaganda while delegitimizing conservative media.

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Jane Sebastian 5 months ago

I think that AI is decidedly left leaning. It's a tool that should only be used to help you compute not to make moral judgements. It's only as good as the data that It's fed, and that can be wildly inaccurate. It's like statistics, you can make any point you want to make using statistics if you frame it in the way that proves your point.

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Photo Man5 months ago

"Do you trust any AI to be politically neutral?" Of course not!! How can anyone trust the leftist movement to be truthful? Gotta be braindead to believe the leftist propaganda.

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Monty Mickle5 months ago

True. Garbage in equals garbage out

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Monty Mickle5 months ago

True. AI like any other computer programming is created by someone so it will reflect the bias of its creator

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Doug Stennett 5 months ago

AI will only be as neutral as it's programmers.

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David Shepherd5 months ago(edited)

The position of any AI output (not to be confused with opinion or thought) is based completely on the leanings of the programmer or programmers. Since it is impossible for humans to be completely objective and unbiased (myself included), AI will never provide unbiased answers to any question that has a moral or ethical component. As stated in other posts, computational work or problem solving will be the only proper use of AI. Having said all that: No, I don’t trust AI. People are expecting answers to real-world problems and trusting AI to provide them. It has already begun to shape our culture and mostly for the worse.

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David Hamilton 5 months ago

Garbage in, garbage out

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Don G5 months ago

Absolutely NOT. If AI learns from media, AI will be just as biased.

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Cheri O5 months ago

GIGO.... garbage in, garbage out. AI is not some neutral magic wand. It's starts from somewhere. Unfortunately, those who are in charge of its programming are having their biases programmed into it.

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Fred Scott5 months ago

Certainly NOT, it's full of Communist propaganda!

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Michael Pollock5 months ago

I do NOT trust AI to remain neutral, as those creating it have an ingrained bias that is not so much political as generational, so events of the past are characterized from a modern perspective instead of that of the people who actually lived it. Perhaps the best example I can offer is "Ye" as in "Ye Olde Shoppe". What people today see as "Y" was actually an obsolete letter of the English alphabet called a "thorn" and representing the sound "th", thus in the time when it was commonly used, "Ye" would be seen and read as "the"! The instances where a thorn was used typically had the letters which followed it superscripted, so distinguishing "Ye" from "ye", the archaic for of you.

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Steve Williams5 months ago

AI is only a reflection of those pulling the strings. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain".

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Susan McCarley5 months ago

I think that there are nefarious players manipulating the ideology of AI. It is becoming, like most news sources, unreliable for true information.

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Michael H.5 months ago

AI is only as trustworthy as the programming put into the system by the creators. If the input is lies then the output is the same. I have been skeptical of AI all along. Computers are fallible because the people programming them are.

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Selene Kitchens5 months ago

Ai is going to help bad guys get worse It will be the weapon that helps bring down USA even further that she is now. Never trust ai. Never. Selene kitchens

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M Harrell5 months ago

I don’t trust any AI at all!

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Kathleen Murphy5 months ago

How is one to tell if a query elicits an honest, unbiased response or if it is trained to lead in a certain direction. AI is a slippery slope,co-opting images and reimagining their stance. I saw an ad with Elon Musk purportedly touting some vitamin or jello concoction...hardly likely! Other things are not so obvious. Kathleen Murphy

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Monty Mickle5 months ago

The silver lining is the American public is seeing through the lies of mainstream media as evidenced by the election of Donald Trump despite a ferocious barrage of attacks against him by mainstream media

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Bernie Peer5 months ago

Well, not after reading your article, but it makes sense as those who are elitists, oligarchs whatever you want to call them are trying to corrupt thought. That’s why reading the Bible, praying, going to church help you to see the truth

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Jane Braun5 months ago

Garbage in - garbage out!! J Braun

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Greg Berry5 months ago

Only if it was programmed by another AI that was programmed by a Muslim that was converted to Christianity who lived their life as a monk.

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Bob Hrebec5 months ago

Is this another non serious question Brandon? I think AI can be manipulated, OF COURSE, and is currently leaning heavily left because liberal ideology is prevalent among the people that have created it.

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Jim Ahern5 months ago

It's not about trust, it's about a program/machine that is fed modeled data that will reflect the will of the programmer. Trust doesn't remotely come into play regarding AI in and of itself. Think Wikipedia on steroids as this is yet another disaster in the making from an informational standpoint. In short, AI is only as trustworthy as the person behind the keyboard feeding in the model data. Now think about the putrid of society that have access to this technology. Still feeling any bit of trust in AI neutrality let alone truth?

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Alison Green5 months ago

I use Grok, Elon Musk’s AI, which helps me feel like I’m getting a fairly balanced reply.

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Linda W5 months ago

Absolutely NOT! The scary thing is that people believe them.

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Fred Flintstone5 months ago

NO, they're laying the groundwork for AI to espouse their Propaganda on a bigger and more wide-ranging scale, than the ABC, cbs, CNN... (i.e. the Main Stream Media). Didn't someone once say 'control the news, control their minds'? As I recall, the Main Stream are the ones who gave us "follow the science," 'covid is not man-made,' 'covid did not escape from a lab in wuhan,' 'wear a mask to prevent the spread of covid/ stand 6 feet apart,' 'we are stopping the spread of Mis-information, ' ...

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Douglas Leard5 months ago

No!

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David McCool5 months ago

NO… anything the Left touches turns to shite.