Thread by @Jules31415

The Global Disinformation Index claims to be “neutral and transparent” as it “assesses disinformation risk” in media markets.

The US State Department helps fund it. Advertisers use it to blacklist “dangerous” publications.

If government doesn’t approve of these news sites—I do.

According to an investigation done by @dcexaminer, The National Endowment for Democracy—a nonprofit which received $330M in taxpayer dollars from the State Department—contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to this disinformation tracking group, GDI.

washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer…

GDI “is secretly blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media, likely costing the news organizations vital advertising dollars,” @dcexaminer confirmed.

Government-subsidized cancel culture is a violation of the First Amendment.

Sound familiar? #TwitterFiles

GDI’s mission is to “remove the financial incentive” to create “disinformation,” and its “core output” is a secretive “dynamic exclusion list”—rating news outlets based on their alleged disinformation “risk” factor.

There are at least 2,000 websites on this “exclusion list.”

Does pressuring advertisers to punish conservative media work?

An internal GDI memo singled out Amazon for purchasing ad space on a @dcexaminer article allegedly including right-wing misinformation, per @reason.

GDI rakes in cash as funding pours into disinformation tracking.

Sites are scored on the “risk of disinforming its readers.”

@reason, listed among the “ten riskiest online news outlets,” questioned its poor rating, but GDI “did not respond to requests for comment, and it has not made its full scoring analysis available to the public.”

Among the “least risky sites” are NPR and HuffPost.

@NPR famously dismissed the @nypost’s story on the Hunter Biden laptop because “we don’t want to waste our time” on “stories that are just pure distractions.”

@HuffPost painted it as Russian misdirection.

For the record, the federally-subsidized GDI believes these media outlets show the “greatest level of disinformation risk”:

@nypost
@reason
@RealClearNews
@DailyWireNews
@theblaze
@OANN
@amconmag
@FDRLST
@NEWSMAX
@amspectator

What do you think? Perhaps they’re worth a follow.

“U.S. State Department Funds a Disinformation Index That Warns Advertisers To Avoid @reason”

Should the State Department spend public money to help an organization pressure advertisers to punish U.S. media companies? The answer, quite obviously, is no…

reason.com/2023/02/14/glo…

From the Global Disinformation Index…

“Disinformation Risk Assessment: The Online News Market in the United States”

disinformationindex.org/files/gdi_us-m…