Spoiler alert: College students will only get more radical -- but not for the reasons you might think.
NewsGuard primes children in public schools for life of leftist activismSpoiler alert: College students will only get more radical — but not for the reasons you might think.
While public education has long leaned left, the widespread and deliberate steering of students toward liberal media sites has been happening for only the last two years. In 2022, the American Federation of Teachers — a powerful teachers union with 1.7 million members — announced a partnership with a third-party company called NewsGuard. The company wants teachers to ensure that tens of millions of students aren’t “misled by dubious outlets and spam sites posing as ‘news.
That the American Federation of Teachers has embraced this tool is telling. This teachers union is among the most leftist organizations in the United States, and in NewsGuard, it has found a partner to help indoctrinate students in a far-left worldview. But the problem doesn’t end with the discouragement of students clicking on stories from right-leaning media outlets. NewsGuard works in a way that makes it harder for such outlets to survive.
To be sure, the American Federation of Teachers isn’t the only entity using NewsGuard. More than 800 public libraries have adopted it, too, and the federal government has paid the company hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight “misinformation.” Nor is NewsGuard the only company advancing the liberal agenda under the guise of fact-checking and media reporting. The Global Disinformation Index and Ad Fontes, with its “Media Bias Chart,” are also concerning.
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