Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Ted Cruz (R-TX) has called out a major tech giant for its ties to a dystopian online rating firm.
Microsoft has long had a partnership with website traffic cop NewsGuard, including for its Edge browser and for educational initiatives, and Cruz now aims to find out exactly what the latter partnership entails. Cruz wrote in his Monday letter, "Given growing concerns about NewsGuard's ideological bias and its efforts to manipulate young minds, I ask for transparency regarding Microsoft's involvement in and financing of this Orwellian censorship project."