U.S. Government “Blacklist” Was Used To Censor Multiple Reports

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A
State Department-backed
“disinformation” tracking group
Blacklisting conservative news outlets
Advertising companies were pressured to penalize websites that promote the use of advertising.
COVID-19
“lab leak” The most likely origin of the virus is theory, according to a federal agency.

The Global Disinformation Index, a British organization with two U.S. nonprofits affiliated, is available.
continues to be under fire
Advertising companies with blacklists of conservative news. The government-funded agency repeatedly pressed companies to discontinue ties with websites that promote the alleged right-wing. “conspiracy” That
COVID-19
emerged from a lab — which the Energy Department recently concluded is probable based on intelligence.

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“GDI is part of [a] disturbing constellation of pop-up censorship organizations that all descended on stifling COVID origins discourse online simultaneously,” Mike Benz, a former State Department official, is the director of Foundation For Freedom Online. This censorship watchdog was told by Washington Examiner.

A Sunday
Report
By the Wall Street Journal It was revealed that the Energy Department had determined that a leak in a lab is the most likely cause for the spread COVID-19. The FBI stated that in 2021 with “moderate confidence” The pandemic is most likely due to a lab failure, although the CIA or another agency aren’t sure.

GDI is a tool that compiles data. “dynamic exclusion list” Brands
Target conservative websites
Like the Washington ExaminerNumerous reports have been published on COVID-19 disinformation. The State Department-backed group gave the group $665,000 between 2020-2021.
Global Engagement Center
And
National Endowment for Democracy
, a non-profit group
It has stated it will not continue to fund
GDI.

GDI alleged February 2020
Report
dubbed “Coronavirus: The makings of a disinformation pandemic?” That “adversarial narratives” Emerging as a key “disinformation tactic.” The report mentioned Sen.
Tom Cotton
(R-AR) For raising the possibility that COVID-19 may have come from a lab on Fox News.

“By broadcasting the Senator’s words to a national audience, this debunked conspiracy theory is given authority, validation and amplification,” GDI was included in the report.

One month later, GDI released a report in March 2020.
Report
titled, “Why is Ad Tech Funding These Ads on Coronavirus Conspiracy Sites?”

The report was critical of Google and other companies. “providing ad revenue streams to known disinformation sites peddling coronavirus conspiracies,” called out the conservative blog American Thinker Commentary to be published
Article
Title “The Wuhan Virus Escaped From a Chinese Lab.” GDI also took aim in the article at a company selling N-95-masks for advertising.

“GDI’s own content on the lab leak perfectly fits its own definition of ‘disinformation,'” Justin Goodman is White Coat Waste Project’s senior vice president for advocacy, public policy, and government affairs. He spoke to The Associated Press Washington Examiner. “A growing majority of taxpayers, scientists around the world, lawmakers, and even the Biden Administration’s FBI and Energy Department agree that dangerous animal experiments at the NIH-funded Wuhan lab caused COVID.”

“Yet, in early 2020, before a pandemic was even declared and any investigation had taken place, GDI was apparently using U.S. taxpayers’s money to gaslight the public by labeling the lab leak a ‘conspiracy theory’ and seeking to censor and demonetize media outlets reporting on it,” He concluded.

GDI also took
Objective
Former, April 2020
Donald Trump
For
Announcement
The government launched an investigation into the laboratory leak theory. Trump’s move was claimed by the organization “triggered a second wave of conspiracy lab theories on known disinformation sites” Advertise in Anonymity and Get Slammed by Companies
Article
In Canada Free Press That theory was discussed.

“All these lab conspiracy theories have been fact checked and proven untrue,” GDI, which links to an
Article
The lab leak theory is being questioned. “The BBC recently debunked evidence of the Wuhan lab conspiracy by breaking down the timeline of events, the protocols in place to protect researchers and civilians from pathogens, and evaluations of [the] lab in Wuhan by U.S. officials.”

GDI has been added: “As GDI consistently has argued, disinformation spreads across networks and starts out on the fringe, before moving into the mainstream. The case of the Wuhan lab conspiracy clearly shows this phenomenon.”

Danny Rogers was the co-founder of GDI and released this report in March.
It was
In an interview with GZERO Media. In an interview with GZERO Media, he claimed that “people are weaponizing conspiracy around” COVID-19 “where it emerged,” Referring to the March 2020 American Thinker article.

Rogers isn’t the only person to GDI who dismissed the theory of a lab leak. Anne Applebaum, a liberal journalist who sits on the advisory panel of the group that oversees the creation of the dynamic exclusion lists, also dismissed the lab leak theory.

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“Wow,” Applebaum

In February 2020, in response to Cotton’s exploration of the laboratory leak theory on Fox News. “Just like the Soviet propagandists who tried to convince the world that the CIA invented AIDS.”

GDI didn’t respond to a request for comment.

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