Teachers Union Partners With Left-Leaning ‘News Literacy Tool’ for Students to Combat ‘Misinformation’

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is rolling out a nationwide partnership with NewsGuard to allegedly “protect and champion legitimate journalism and fact-based reporting” according to a press release. The agreement will provide licenses so tens of millions of public school students will be exposed to its services through a licensed copy of NewsGuard’s browser extension.

The Media Research Center’s (MRC) Free Speech America analyzed NewGuard ratings of news outlets and found substantial bias in their ratings.

NewsGuard touts itself as a service run by “trained journalists,” that rates news sources to allegedly “fight misinformation and teach media literacy,” according to its website. Instead, the ‘misinformation’ company may indeed be iteself misinforming.

Based on its nine criteria of journalistic practice “each [online] site gets an overall rating of Green (generally trustworthy) or Red (generally not trustworthy), a trust score of 0-100 points, and a detailed ‘Nutrition Label’ review explaining who is behind the site, what kind of content it publishes, and why it received its ratingaccording to  NewsGuard. But the ratings are suspect, at best.