Conservative leaders are calling on Congress to include in the final version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) an amendment to prohibit the Defense Department from working with so-called fact checking organizations that censor news outlets.
The Nov. 22 letter from the right-leaning Media Research Center was addressed to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
The House version of the NDAA includes this amendment, introduced by Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.), that comes in light of reporting that the Pentagon has worked with NewsGuard, which has come under fire for allegedly pushing for censoring right-wing publications.
The GOP-controlled House passed its NDAA on July 14 mostly along party lines. The NDAA is the Pentagon’s annual blueprint and is separately backed by an appropriations bill. The Senate version does not have an amendment like the one in the House bill.
NewsGuard rates the reliability of news outlets, with high scores often going to left-wing media and low scores of right-wing publications. On average, NewsGuard has given the former a 91 percent rating and the latter a 66 percent rating, according to…
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