Washington Examiner
The Washington Examiner has continued to detail how the Global Disinformation Index, a British organization with two affiliated U.S. nonprofit groups, is secretly feeding conservative website blacklists to advertising companies with the intent of shutting down disfavored speech. As part of that series, this story will walk through what GDI has claimed constitutes as “disinformation” in public reports, memos, and interviews.
GDI has come under fire from Republican members of Congress, such as House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), ever since the Washington Examiner’s first story on Feb. 9. The story walked through the disinformation monitor’s secret blacklist and was published shortly before it was also revealed that the State Department has funded GDI, raising concerns among First Amendment lawyers.
“To reduce disinformation, we need to remove the financial incentive to create it,” says GDI on its website. “Brands unwittingly provide an estimated quarter of a billion dollars annually to disinformation websites through online advertisements placed on them. GDI uses both human and artificial intelligence to assess disinformation risk across the open web. We then provide these risk ratings to brands and advertising technology partners, providing them with a trusted and neutral source of data with which to direct their advertising spend.”
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