BPR: Last-minute rebranding wasn’t enough to stop Secretary of State Marco Rubio from cutting off a taxpayer-funded source of income for the “self-anointed arbiters of truth” at Newsguard.
As billionaire Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter had proved pivotal in exposing the suppression of content and shadow banning rampant on Big Tech platforms, so too had the second election of President Donald Trump appeared crucial in the ongoing fight to preserve the First Amendment.
Toward that end, last week, Rubio had announced the shutdown of the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office (R/FIMI) that had previously been known as the Global Engagement Center (GEG), which, according to the Washington Times’ editorial board, was responsible for funding organizations like Newsguard: https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/22/thank-you-sec-rubio-so-called-fact-checker-newsguard-finally-cut-off-from-taxpayer-funds-1538131/
Now it just has to get past the Judiciary obstacles.
Good to have some progress but, like DEI and moles in your yard, you can tamp them down but they are never really gone. You can have the satisfaction of beating it down.
“Fact Checkers”: Exaggerating Propagandists.
I swear they grabbed these people from the likes of unsuccessful fishermen and Pecker Checkers!
newsguard *******, try coding
or try fag-checking