You clearly know what you're talking about when it comes to digital privacy and all of the points on that you make here are concerning, but maybe tone down your own political biases if you really are just trying to spread knowledge and help people? Your post reads like someone who is more pissed off at democrats existing than at his own gov violating his rights.

a lot of the right-leaning sites are given lower scores because they literally peddle in lies, misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories, as well as pushing "white is right" ideologies, stories, and authors. 

You got any links connecting pfizer to NewsGuard? I couldn't find a single thing from a reputable source, but I did find this NY Post article re-hosted on MSN (oh the irony): https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-s-state-dept-paid-newsguard-to-tar-organizations-like-ours/ar-AA1laOov

*"Democrats have been so conditioned to never question or criticize top-down control"*? So you're saying it's the Republicans and conservatives who are woke and the Democrats have yet to wake up to the brainwashing of the state? And no democrats or leftists ever question or complain about the gov? Interesting.

Have you seen any of the news from the last 3 months where every single week, all over the U.S., hundreds of thousands of people have been protesting and striking against the U.S. government's involvement in Gaza and declaring they'll never vote for Joe Biden again, while hundreds are being arrested, vilified, fired from jobs, and attacked in the streets, as well as the very widespread shadow-banning and censorship of pro-Palestinian content on every mainstream social media platform on the planet? If you haven't, perhaps it's because it's actually the speech and views of the left that are being suppressed by the conservative-controlled media.

But yeah, even though Twitter is owned by the world's richest white supremacist and Meta is owned by the world's richest Zionist and Microsoft and Google are in bed with and design systems for every U.S.-allied military in the world, and even though every major news outlet in the U.S. has been parroting what the gov want them to for decades, and even though all those companies share the data they have on their users with law enforcement and the gov, and even though there are new laws being introduced right now in multiple states by republicans to limit free speech and the right to assembly specifically in response to the pro-Palestinian movement, and even though the police only attack left-wing protestors while protecting right-wing protestors, it's still the conservatives who are being silenced and suppressed. 🙄