NewsGuard Archives - Granite Grok

MACDONALD: Taxdollars and Viewpoint Discrimination

July 9, 2026 Steve MacDonald

More great news out of Florida, and it lands close to our snarky little hearts. “State agencies in Florida are barred … from hiring advertising firms that use ‘misinformation’ ratings to decide which news outlets deserve ad dollars and which don’t.” Remember NewsGuard? Outfits like NewsGuard, Ad Fontes Media, and the Global Disinformation Index built … Read more

MACDONALD: NewsGuard is Back – Here’s How it Went (In Conclusion)

March 5, 2026 Steve MacDonald

Welcome back for the final installment of this year’s NewsGuard drive-by. The annual interface between GraniteGrok.com and an establishment censor that uses a rigged, partisan scoring scheme to scare readers away from information the globalists don’t want them to see. Here are the links to part one, part two, and part 3. . NewsGuard’s final two questions … Read more

MACDONALD: NewsGuard is Back – Here’s How it Went (Part 3)

February 27, 2026 Steve MacDonald

Welcome to my ongoing review of questions challenging my “journalistic integrity” (except I’m not a journalist), in which I use their challenge to challenge theirs right back. NewsGuard doesn’t guard news, as we all know, proven in real time by these posts showing what they ask me and my response. Here are the links to … Read more

MACDONALD: NewsGuard is Back – Here’s How it Went (Part 2)

February 20, 2026 Steve MacDonald

Welcome to my ongoing review of questions challenging my “journalistic integrity” (except I’m not a journalist), in which I use their challenge to challenge theirs right back. Part one addressed the first of five “concerns” the lovely people at NewsGuard (that’s not sarcasm) expressed over content published at GraniteGrok.com. The individuals I deal with are very professional; … Read more

MACDONALD: NewsGuard is Back – Here’s How it Went (Part 1)

February 6, 2026 Steve MacDonald

Every January, the nice folks at NewsGuard ask whether I will be responding to any of their questions about content published on GraniteGrok.com that they have issues with. They cite a post, comment on it, present rebutting information, and ask why we didn’t include any of that in the original. My pat response for years has been … Read more

NewsGaurd is Back to Review Us – My ‘Polite’ Response

January 23, 2025January 16, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Last January, NewsGuard caught up with GraniteGrok to ask some questions about articles we had published, with which we can only assume they took umbrage—things about COVID, Masks, J6, 9/11, that sort of thing. We got a rating (in the mid-30s), and I used it the same way we do all assaults on our platform. … Read more

NewsGuard Unintentionally Helps Us Identify the Real™ Misinformation Media …

February 11, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The beauty of a blatantly biased government-funded project like NewsGuard is that we can measure how much we can trust any news source they’ve audited by reversing what the scores mean. The closer you get to zero, the more likely the content is not controlled by or at least aping the uniparty line.

NewsGuard Helps The ‘Grok Add to Its Independent Media Credentials

January 24, 2024 Steve MacDonald

If you recall, I reported on an email exchange with an editor or researcher (or some such thing) from NewsGuard. They are a deep-state surveillance stooge for policing unapproved content. Put another way, the lower your rating, the less likely you are peddling the uniparty, globalist narrative

I Was Contacted by NewsGuard Yesterday About Rating This Website …

January 12, 2024 Steve MacDonald

If You’ve not heard of NewsGuard, Lee Fang, writing at RealClear Wire – which (thank you!) shares its content with independent media like the ‘Grok, had some less than flattering observations about the service.

NewsGuard: Surrogate the Feds Pay to Keep Watch on the Internet and Be a Judge of the Truth

November 18, 2023 Op-Ed

In May 2021, L. Gordon Crovitz, a media executive turned start-up investor, pitched Twitter executives on a powerful censorship tool. In an exchange that came to light in the “Twitter Files” revelations about media censorship, Crovitz, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal, touted his product, NewsGuard, as a “Vaccine Against Misinformation.”