The 2024 defense authorization bill now in its final stages on Capitol Hill contains a provision that would restrict the Pentagon from spending money on an advertising agency that relies on the self-described "counter-misinformation" group NewsGuard, a blow to the left-leaning organization that critics say unfairly targets conservative media.
"A key revenue source for the AI models is licensing their tools to companies and governments that insist on these models producing trustworthy information."
A "censorship" tool once housed under the State Department is the major focus of a new lawsuit accusing the United States government of suppressing conservative voices.
NewsGuard, a for-profit company that provides news websites with "reliability ratings," is selling its "Misinformation Fingerprints" tool to Microsoft and other private companies after it was awarded a grant from the federal government to develop the technology.The company developed its rating syste.