The State Department is funneling taxpayer dollars to a shadowy network of corporate censors to blacklist dissident media, the Washington Examiner’s Gabe Kaminsky reported Thursday night.
On Thursday morning, the Examiner published the paper’s first expose on the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a British group that compiles secretive lists of news organizations the index encourages major corporations to boycott. Advertisers that seek out online platforms to promote their products contract with such “disinformation” groups and make decisions on which websites to advertise based on their recommendations.
The network of corporate censors disguised as groups on the frontlines countering disinformation, such as GDI and NewsGuard, often label conservative media with low ratings while they offer high scores to legacy outlets that botched major stories. NewsGuard, for example, continues to label major papers at the heart of the Russia hoax with perfect credibility while the Fox News, the New York Post, and The Federalist, which accurately reported on the Hunter Biden laptop, are given failing grades.
Disinformation groups are also used by major tech giants to justify overt censorship. In August, the New York Times cited NewsGuard data to argue President Donald Trump’s Twitter alternative, TruthSocial, be banned from app stores. Google followed suit and nuked the app from its online marketplace.
According to the Washington Examiner on Thursday, the top ten news organizations identified as the “riskiest” or “worst” offenders of spreading disinformation by GDI are each known for conservative news and commentary. Outlets include the American Spectator, Newsmax, The Federalist,
