State Department-backed group to stop funding 'disinformation' index that targeted right-leaning sites | Fox News - Brian Flood:
February 21, 2023 - "The State Department-backed National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has cut ties with a "disinformation" monitoring group after it was revealed the organization was targeting non-liberal and conservative news organizations....
"Earlier this month, the Washington Examiner reported that a British organization called the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) with ties to a pair of American nonprofits is 'feeding blacklists to ad companies with the intent of defunding and shutting down websites peddling alleged "disinformation."'
"GDI gathers a 'dynamic exclusion list' that it provides to major companies such as Microsoft’s Xandr, according to the report that cites emails as evidence. GDI has also identified the 10 'riskiest' news organizations, including the New York Post, which broke the Hunter Biden laptop story that was censored by Big Tech and falsely dismissed as Russian disinformation in some media outlets. RealClearPolitics, Reason and the Federalist are also among the websites named....
"The National Endowment for Democracy – one of the American nonprofits involved -- caught wind of the news and decided to stop providing cash to the GDI. NED vice president of communications Leslie Aun told the Examiner that the group’s 'mandate is to work around the world and not in the United States' and shouldn’t be involved in domestic politics.
"'Recently, we became aware that one of our grantees, the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), was engaged in an initiative, funded by a different donor, that focused on specific U.S. media outlets,' Aun continued. 'We recognize the important work GDI has done with NED support in other countries to help preserve the integrity of the information space and counter authoritarian influence. However, given our commitment to avoid the perception that NED is engaged in any work domestically, directly or indirectly, we will no longer provide financial support to GDI.'"
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