100/100) Taps One America News (22.5/100) to offer intelligence services

From Sam Howard And Sofia Rubinson

What happened: One America News (Newsguard Trust Score: 22.5/100)A judicial cable setting network, which Newsguard repeatedly exudes false and outrageously misleading information, was mapped by the Voice of America financed by the USA (Trust assessment: 100/100) Provision of news programs.

A closer look: Kari Lake, Senior Adviser of the US Agency for Global Media, which VoA monitors, announced The partnership in an X -Post on May 6th, in which the change contributes to the fact that Voice of America “has reliable and credible options to create your reporting and news programs”.

News Guard reviews of the website and television programs from OAN from until 2020 have determined that the network is often spreading incorrect claims, especially about politics and elections in the United States.

• After the 2020 elections, the OAN network and the website became prominent supporters of unfounded claims made by Donald Trump that he was the legal winner of the election. No. November 2024 said Oan Reporter Pearson Sharp in the air: “The choice 2020 was bad enough – we all know that it was stolen. And friends, I'm afraid, in 2024 it doesn't look better. After all, when they found out how to successfully steal a choice, why do you do it again, don't you do it again?”

• Newsguard has also found that OAN often publishes false claims related to health. For example an April 2025 Article It was found on the OAN location that the Covid 19 vaccine from Pfizer in vaccinated people caused 23 percent more deaths than in a group that received a placebo in the clinical study of the vaccine. The results of the clinical study actually say that no deaths among the study participants were caused by the vaccine.

Voice of America has received the highest Newsguard Trust score since his first review in 2020.

• Articles on the VOA website were generally based on fact-based and well-qualified reports, interviews with academics and other experts, government reports and data as well as reporting from other reliable media organizations.

The VOA, which is financed by the congress and the US political news and stories about everyday life in America worldwide, have experienced significant changes during the second Trump administration.

• In December 2024, Trump called Lake, a former TV anchor and Trump allied, to monitor the media operations financed by the US government, which include VOA, Radio Free Europe and Radio Martí. Lake previously promoted unfounded election fraud claims and called For the punishment of “lies” journalists.

• In March Trump signed an executive regulation that almost all placed Out of 1,300 VOA employees on administrative leave, although a federal judge has temporarily stopped This movement. Before typing on oan, voa ended His contracts with credible news agencies including the Associated Press (Trust assessment: 100/100)Reuters (Trust assessment: 100/100)and Agence France press (Trust assessment: 100/100).

• Lake said Oan will provide his news feed for the VOA free of charge.

In an e -mail declaration from May 2025 to Newsguard, OAN President Charles Herring explained: “In contrast to Newsguard, in which the US government took 750,000 US dollars in the amount of $ 750,000, OAN consequently rejected any state to avoid the latest announcement that the integrity of the interest and journalists Announcement affects the recent announcement. (NewsGuard had a contract of 750,000 US dollars with the US Department of Defense in 2021 to monitor the disinformation campaigns supervisor from China, Russia, Russia and Iran.)

Newsguard sent an e -mail to the Lake office in order to receive a statement on the agreement, but did not receive an immediate answer. Newsguard will continue to monitor and analyze OAN and VOA based on the nine non-political credibility and transparency standards from Newsguard.

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