_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.













