Matt Taibbi focuses on government funded "misinformation" contractor NewsGuard

Laundering censorship through the private sector?

NewsGuard for those who don’t know rates thousands of news sites for their “trustworthiness”. One can buy the NewsGuard app to protect one from “misinformation”. The experts have weighed in and they will tell you whether a site is legit or not. They’ve got it in hand.

Of course this isn’t how it really works. If one reviews the most “trusted” sites accor…