Online “credibility” arbiter NewsGuard strongly favors an organization that kills babies, declaring abortion giant Planned Parenthood credible. Three pro-life outlets were also given very low ratings by the rating company.
NewsGuard gave Planned Parenthood (an abortion company infamously known for killing unborn children) a positive 75/100 rating. It gave the site credibility and a green seal of approval. The ratings firm gives green ratings to sites it deems credible and red ratings to sites it considers lacking in “credibility.” Planned Parenthood had performed 9 million abortions as of July 2021, meaning it has caused one of the biggest genocides in history, per Human Life International. Yet, NewsGuard gave pro-life LifeNews and Live Action websites negative red “credibility” ratings of 30/100. The rating firm gave LifeSiteNews a 17.5/100. NewsGuard does not rate many other pro-life and anti-abortion sites.
Live Action got a 30/100 rating from NewsGuard. NewsGuard also downgraded Live Action because it allegedly exposed corruption in Planned Parenthood. NewsGuard describes Live Action as “an anti-abortion group that has deceptively edited videos and made unsubstantiated health claims, particularly in articles that target Planned Parenthood.” The “nutrition label” from NewsGuard slammed abortion pill reversal practices, which have reportedly saved 2,500 lives as of November 2021. NewsGuard’s label criticized the reversals as “not based on science,” citing the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, while simultaneously defending the abortion pill. NewsGuard’s “nutrition labels” for Live Action, LifeNews and LifeSiteNews are lengthy arguments against various perspectives published by the pro-life outlets.
In contrast, the “nutrition label” for Planned Parenthood seemingly favors the abortion giant against the evidence of Planned Parenthood’s selling of aborted babies’ body parts exposed by journalist David Daleiden and his Center for Medical Progress. NewsGuard’s Planned Parenthood label cites the organization’s claim that Daleiden’s videos were “heavily edited.”
NewsGuard claims to assess the accuracy of information presented by sites, yet did not address Planned Parenthood’s claim in its 2019-2020 annual report that only 3 percent of services it provides are “abortion services” in its credibility rating. The misleading 3 percent claim, which was also debunked by other sources such as the New York Post and CNSNews.com, and even the liberal Washington Post.
Live Action, LifeNews and LifeSiteNews all received a negative rating from NewsGuard in the category “Does not repeatedly publish false content.” In contrast, MRC Free Speech America found that several communist Chinese state-run media sites were rated credible in that category by NewsGuard. Planned Parenthood also received a green checkmark from NewsGuard for “Does not repeatedly publish false content.”
NewsGuard doesn’t seem to consider the fact that abortion is a crime against humanity.
An MRC Free Speech America study found that NewsGuard’s average ratings for sites AllSides deemed “left” or “lean left” were significantly higher than ratings for “right” or “lean right” outlets.
Conservatives under attack Contact ABC News (818) 460-7477, CBS News (212) 975-3247 and NBC News (212) 664-6192 and demand they report on NewsGuard’s clear left-wing bias.
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