Entrepreneur Elon Musk has called the content moderator NewsGuard a “scam” and demanded that it be “disbanded immediately” over claims that it suppresses speech that doesn’t align with the moderator’s political stances. Mr. Musk also has questioned the European Union over its alleged association with NewsGuard.
On Oct. 19, Trump administration official Mike Benz wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: “[NewsGuard] is knee deep in a plot to get [governments] to bankrupt alternative news. NewsGuard worked [with the] EU on new disinformation code. Its biz model has ‘disinformation compliance’ services [with the] censorship laws it promotes.”