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Joe Lancaster

Federal Judge Tosses Defamation Lawsuit Against NewsGuard

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This week, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against the U.S. government and an internet watchdog organization.

NewsGuard was founded by Gordon Crovitz, a former editor of The Wall Street Journal, and Steven Brill, an attorney who started Court TV; they serve as co-CEOs. The company employs journalists to assess and rate the reliability of news outlets on a scale of 0–100. The ratings—what it calls "nutrition reports"—are offered to advertisers and news aggregators but can also be displayed in search results for users who download NewsGuard's software.

Consortium News is an online news outlet founded in 1995 to counteract what its founder deemed the mainstream media's "pattern of groupthink on issue after issue" and "the silliness and propaganda that had come to pervade American journalism."

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