The Global Engagement Center, the State Department’s foreign disinformation center and a sinister censorship invention of the Obama Administration, lost its funding after the re-written continuing resolution in Congress to resolve the budget stand-off was approved. The original version, killed in part by the opposition of President-Elect Trump, included funding for the agency of around $61 million, supporting 120 people on staff.

Good riddance. Elon Musk had, correctly, called the GEC the “worst offender in U.S. government censorship & media manipulation.” Along with the Biden Department of Homeland Security, it provided taxpayer funds to NewsGuard, the laughably biased “non-partisan” news disinformation “watchdog” that the Axis media uses to deny that it is what it is. “This company rates news sites’ credibility. The right wants it stopped,” a Washington Post disinformation piece was headlined on Chritsmas Eve. Here is literally the only thing you need to know about both the movitations of the Post and the neutrality and objectivity of NewsGuard. Are you ready?

NewsGuard has given the Washington Post a perfect 100/100 credibility score!

The Washington Post. No bias there! The newspaper that in May published an editorial calling for Machiavellian measures to defeat Donald Trump. Oh, it’s completely credible that the Post’s vaunted investigative reporting couldn’t discover for four years that Joe Biden’s brain was a rotting husk and that the country was being run by unelected radicals unknown. Wait, doesn’t endorsing “Machiavellian methods” to defeat Trump mean that the Post itself would employ such methods, like, say, lying, fake news, and covering up Democratic botches and fake Presidencies? Is the theory that a news organization that tells you it’s biased is 100% credible because it admits it?

My mind is boggling.

The Post also didn’t reveal in its impassioned defense of NewsGuard that it has been the beneficiary of NewsGuard’s favor. That itself is an ethics breach: the Post has a conflict of interest and didn’t reveal it, in an article about what a great and beneficent, unbiased news media watchdog an organization is that pimps for the Post!

Wow. What IS that? To me, it is like an unethical Mobius strip, bending back around to include itself in what its denying while simultaneously proving what it denies is true by the act of denying it! NewsGuard co-CEO Steven Brill is preserved on video in an interview on CNBC calling Hunter Biden’s laptop a “hoax” perpetrated by the Russians before the 2020 elections in October. How can a credible news media watchdog have leadership that participated in that partisan cover-up? It can’t.

The conservative Media Research Center’s Free Speech America project released three studies of NewsGuard’s skewed ratings system over three years and concluded that the anti-bias organization was biased itself, gave left-leaning outlets an average “credibility” rating of 91/100, while giving right-leaning outlets a 26 points lower rating at 65/100 on average. MRC is biased to the right, you say? Indeed it is—but then there’s that incredible 100% credible Washington Post rating. Res ipsa loquitur. Signature significance.

NewsGuard is to rating news media disinformation what PolitiFact and Snopes are to factchecking.