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Exposé Reveals Shadowy Left-Wing Network Works To Censor, Deplatform Conservatives

‘Disinformation’ trackers are on a mission to blacklist and defund conservative news sites, costing them thousands of dollars in ad revenue.Left-wing “disinformation” tracking groups are working to blacklist and defund conservative news sites, costing them thousands of dollars in ad revenue, according to an exclusive report by The Washington Examiner.

Affiliates of the U.K.-based Global Disinformation Index (GDI) have raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars producing secretive lists of non-leftist news sites for large corporations to boycott. Corporate brands seek out ad companies to help promote their products online, and these ad companies are contracting with these “disinformation” tracking entities to tell them which websites they should avoid advertising on.

Such third-party entities blacklist conservative news sites that have resisted some of the false narratives and propaganda put forth by corporate media. The shadowy network of tracking groups labels the content on these independent news sites as disinformation so brands will not offer ads on their sites. The goal is to financially hurt independent publications and ultimately prevent them from disseminating content, the report explains.

While GDI claims to be nonpartisan, its leadership includes leftist activists, according to the report. Its advisory panel is also full of activists aligned with the left, including Meta’s — Facebook’s parent company — global lead for threat intelligence Ben Nimmo, The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum, and University of Washington Professor Franziska Roesner. Applebaum is known for pushing the Russia-collusion hoax as well as participating in the coordinated operation to suppress facts about the Biden family business. She later defended her support of that operation as not a big deal.

According to The Washington Examiner:

GDI’s mission is to “remove the financial incentive” to create “disinformation,” and its “core output” is a secretive “dynamic exclusion list” that rates news outlets based on their alleged disinformation “risk” factor, according to its website. There are at least 2,000 websites on this exclusion list, which has “had a significant impact on the advertising revenue that has gone to those sites,” [GDI CEO Clare] Melford said on a March 2022 podcast episode hosted by the Safety Tech Innovation Network, a British government-backed group.

GDI’s exclusion list of what it claimed were the “riskiest” and “worst” peddlers of what it called “disinformation” include media outlets known for their exhaustive and well-sourced reporting in opposition to information operations put out through corporate media. These information operations include the unsubstantiated claims that respected Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a secret serial gang rapist, the completely debunked Russia-collusion hoax, and the poorly designed and implemented public health response to the Covid pandemic.

The list includes The Federalist, The American Spectator, Newsmax, The American Conservative, One America News, The Blaze, The Daily Wire, RealClearPolitics, Reason, and the New York Post.

According to its website, GDI justifies this exclusion list by asserting without evidence that each of these 10 outlets “displayed some degree of cherry-picking facts, omitting relevant information, making unsubstantiated claims, and/or using logical fallacies. Many of the sites that regularly posted this kind of misleading, biased content also used sensational language to elicit an emotional response from the reader.”

In contrast, GDI also ranked what it claimed were the 10 “least risky” news outlets, which include some of the most politically biased outlets in journalism today: NPR, ProPublica, the Associated Press, Insider, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, Buzzfeed News, HuffPost, and The Wall Street Journal. GDI claimed that each of these publications — most of which were well known for pushing the false Russia-collusion hoax, the false Kavanaugh rape smears, as well as routinely pushing Democrat talking points — show “minimal bias” and a lack of “sensational language” in their reporting.

There is no mention of the fact that most — if not all — of these outlets published many election-meddling false claims that the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story was “Russian disinformation” or spent the four years of the Trump presidency using loaded and “sensational language to elicit an emotional response from the reader” — that Donald Trump was a threat to democracy, an illegitimate president, and a toady for Russia.

Instead, publications with strong institutional legitimacy and award-winning journalism, such as The New York Post, whose reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop was finally vindicated, and RealClearPolitics, known for publishing rigorously reported articles on pressing issues of the day, were labeled as “high risk” to potential readers.

GDI isn’t the only group that blacklists independent news sites to deprive them of ad revenue, however. The Examiner also highlights DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science, which flag what they claim are problematic news sites and their alleged disinformation to steer clients away from offering ads on those sites.

“The implementation of ad revenue crushing sentinels like Newsguard, Global Disinformation Index, and the like has completely crippled the potential of alternative news sources to compete on an even economic playing field with approved media outlets like CNN and the New York Times,” Mike Benz, ex-deputy assistant for internal communications and information policy at the Department of State told the Examiner.

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Puffball Press Corps Ignores Hunter Biden in Court

NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith, who heads the White House Correspondents' Association, created unintentional comedy in her speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

It's a "challenging time for our country," she proclaimed. "People are choosing their news in part based on what they want to hear. And this makes us all vulnerable to conspiracy theories, to seeing the worst in our fellow citizens, to losing sight of our shared humanity."

Does Tamara Keith think NPR listeners aren't choosing their news based on what they want to hear? Liberals have a terrible habit of thinking the other side lives in a silo, and their side is so tremendously open-minded. In much the same way, Keith can bizarrely proclaim that she and her colleagues "pull no punches" and "hold the administration accountable."

So let's offer Keith some easy proof that she and her NPR clan live in a reinforced silo: news about Hunter Biden. On Monday, Biden appeared in court for two hours in Batesville, Arkansas, in his attempt to lower his child support payments to the mother, Lunden Roberts, and their 4-year-old daughter, Navy Joan Roberts.

Biden's parentage is not a "conspiracy theory," but he may have lost sight of his shared humanity. The Bidens have spent four years pretending this child does not exist, and everyone in the pro-Biden press seem to have their necks permanently turned the other way.

If this were one of Donald Trump's sons trying to lower child support payments, NPR and the rest of the liberal alphabet soup would have been all over this, scouring father and son for their callous treatment. But the hearing came and went, and there was nothing on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and NPR.

It's not just television. The New York Times — all the news that's fit to print? — and The Washington Post and USA Today didn't have anything about Hunter's court appearance in their Tuesday papers. USA Today preferred a panicked front-page story on whether PVC pipes produce toxic drinking water.

Liberal outlets rushed to make time for the latest courtroom testimony from Trump rape accuser E. Jean Carroll. It doesn't matter that she's like Brett Kavanaugh's sketchy primary accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, in failing to know the date of this alleged assault. But her Monday testimony drew six minutes on the "PBS NewsHour" and drew stories in both The Post and The Times. But there was nothing for little Navy Joan or her mother.

Media outlets outside the liberal silo find Hunter Biden newsworthy. Looking at our Snapstream TV monitoring software on hearing day, Fox News and Newsmax were all over it. People who tune in to conservative channels for the news that liberal outlets suppress? Those are the people Tamara Keith would accuse of spreading conspiracy theories and seeing the worst in our fellow citizens. NPR hates Fox News (and their fans) with a red-hot passion.

The Lunden Roberts legal team wants detailed information about Biden's income, both in massive payments from Chinese interests and from recent sales of his amateur paintings. In the minds of journalists who don't want to write or speak Biden's name, Roberts and Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) seem villainously aligned in creating unnecessary havoc for the Bidens.

This energetically neglected love-child story underlines the insincerity of liberals lamenting that conservative distrust of the press means we can't have "shared facts." You can't have those when liberals try to bury facts they don't like, and assault those who keep them above ground.

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