Three months after the Washington Free Beacon revealed the Democratic leanings of NewsGuard employees—several of whom have worked in Democratic politics and contributed to Democratic candidates—the self-anointed arbiter of media credibility docked the Free Beacon‘s score on its trust ratings.

The company, which claims to "have no political axes to grind," on Wednesday lowered the pro-freedom website's score to 80 from 87.5 out of a possible 100 points, citing an alleged failure to disclose the company's ownership in a "user-friendly" way. The Free Beacon‘s disclosure of its ownership by FreeBeacon LLC on its "Terms of Use" page is apparently insufficient.

The revision came after NewsGuard analyst Macrina Wang, who as a student at Yale told a student publication the Brett Kavanaugh saga taught her that if she is ever sexually assaulted, "I won't get the justice that I deserve," asked the Free Beacon questions about its founding editor "David Continetti [sic]" and its "practices regarding distinguishing between news and opinion." Free Beacon founding editor Matthew Continetti did not respond to a request for comment.