“NewsGuard is not a fact checker entity, they’re a propaganda entity that cherry picks claims from other experts, other stories, to basically support their political point.”
Phil Magness, from the full podcast: https://youtu.be/gbVViPNsvFY
“You have that circular situation going on where it’s like, well, this is the evidence that what I’ve wrote is evidence that what I’ve written is correct.”
On this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand sat down with Phil Magness, Director of Research and Education at AIER, to discuss censorship, fact-checking, the politicization of academia, and how that affects research, corporations, and American culture. Phil also outlines how academia often produces ideologically-driven experts who then take a technocratic approach to the impossible task of designing a perfect world, while quashing all ideas that don’t align with theirs.
You can follow Phil on Twitter @PhilWMagness
You can read his work here: https://philmagness.com/
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