by Daniel McCarthy at New York Post
The State Department is financing a foreign advocacy group that aims to cut off funding to American journalists.
That’s one of the blockbuster revelations in “Disinformation Inc.,” a series of reports by Gabe Kaminsky in the Washington Examiner.
The “Global Disinformation Index,” or GDI, is a British organization with a pair of US nonprofit affiliates. It receives hundreds of thousands of dollars from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center and the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy.
But GDI is in the business of doing what the First Amendment doesn’t allow our government to do. It blacklists news organizations to deny them advertiser dollars.
Major advertisers like the Microsoft-owned Xandr have used GDI’s “dynamic exclusion list” to decide which websites will or won’t get ads.
Clare Melford, GDI’s executive director, says it has had “a significant impact on the advertising revenue” of sites branded as purveyors of disinformation.
Who is on this self-appointed censor’s proscription list?
All 10 of the news organizations GDI classifies as “riskiest” or “worst” are outside of the left-liberal media club.
They include right-of-center outlets like…
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