As Newsguard’s project advances, it will soon become almost impossible to avoid this neocon-approved news site’s ranking systems on any technological device sold in the United States. by Whitney Webb Part 2 - Red light, green light . . . Newsguard has received considerable attention in the mainstream media of late, having been the subject of a slew of articles in the Washington Post, the Hill, the Boston Globe, Politico, Bloomberg, Wired , and many others just over the past few months. Those articles portray Newsguard as using “ old-school journalism ” to fight “ fake news ” through its reliance on nine criteria allegedly intended to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to online news. Newsguard separates sites it deems worthy and sites it considers unreliable by using a color-coded rating — green, yellow, or red — and more detailed “nutrition labels” regarding a site’s credibility or lack thereof. Rankings are created by Newsguard ’s team of “trained a