According to a series of investigative stories by the Washington Examiner, lavishly funded organizations claiming to track “disinformation” worked in secret to stifle conservative media by siphoning off advertising income.
“The vice president of Media Research Center’s Free Speech America, Dan Schneider, stated on Friday that the radical left “knows better than anybody that the easiest way to dramatically alter America and also destroy freedom is to stifle the voices of their opposition.”
“They pose as information protectors, but we all know they’re really simply authoritarian thugs.”
Former deputy assistant for the internal communications and information policy at the State Department Mike Benz told the Washington Examiner, “It’s catastrophic.”
“The ability of alternative news sources to compete on an equal economic level with established media outlets like CNN and the New York Times has been severely crippled by the deployment of ad revenue-crushing sentinels like NewsGuard, Global Disinformation Index, and the like.”
Blacklists are provided to advertising corporations by the British group Global Disinformation Index. The Washington Times noted in the second article of its Disinformation, Inc. series that advertising businesses like Xandr utilize GDI’s “dynamic exclusion list” to keep their advertisements off of websites that GDI deems to be a disinformation risk.
According to the site, Microsoft-owned Xandr has suddenly changed its tune and removed the red warnings against conservative media outlets. These red flags prevented right-leaning media outlets from obtaining advertising money, which some of them significantly rely on to stay in business.
Global Disinformation Index has received funding from two organizations funded by the State Department and leftist megadonor George Soros, according to a Monday Washington Times investigation. Newsbusters’ investigation reveals that three members of GDI’s advisory board have connections to Soros.
According to the Examiner’s research, two nonprofit organizations in Texas are associated with Global Disinformation Index, a British organization whose stated goal is to “eliminate the financial incentive” to produce “disinformation.” In real terms, that means depriving news sources the organization disagrees with of essential advertising money, which effectively silences them.
TheBlaze is one of the top 10 “riskiest” sources of “disinformation,” according to a 2022 assessment by the self-described “nonpartisan” GDI. The organization’s list of target publications also included The New York Post, Reason Magazine, The Daily Wire, RealClearPolitics, One America News Network, The American Conservative, Newsmax, The Federalist, and The American Spectator.
The Washington Post, the NY Times, BuzzFeed News, HuffPost, and other left-leaning publications made the list of “least dangerous” publications.
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