Date posted: April 7, 2023

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“The Defender” Podcast Nutrition Label

Date posted: April 7, 2023

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Note: NewsGuard employs a team of journalists and experienced editors to produce reliability ratings and scores for news and information websites based on nine journalistic criteria. The criteria assess basic practices of credibility and transparency. Our podcast and TV coverage is influenced by our website criteria.

Based on a site’s performance on these nine apolitical criteria, which are each weighted differently with the points for all adding up to 100, it is assigned a 0-100 score, also expressed as 0% to 100%, and a rating level indicating the degree to which it adheres to the weighted criteria.

The accompanying Nutrition Label, as shown above, explains how NewsGuard arrived at its assessment, and includes remarks by the outlet (or attempts to reach the publisher for comment) so readers can have greater context about the publisher. A more detailed explanation of our website criteria is available here.