Article in FAIR by Ari Hall, 3/25/26

Headline:  “Trump’s FTC Wages a War on Media Criticism”

“NewsGuard, a company that rates news outlets’ accuracy using what it calls apolitical journalistic criteria…to identify reliable sources of information, has filed a lawsuit to block the Federal Trade Commission’s demand for a list of all its customers.

“The FTC in May 2025 launched a wide-ranging probe into NewsGuard and 16 other groups—including left-leaning watch group Media Matters for America, and the Global Disinformation Index, a nonprofit media ratings service. The agency alleged the groups were part of ‘a conspiracy to boycott conservative and independent media.’. . .”

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https://fair.org/home/trumps-ftc-wages-a-war-on-media-criticism/