Saturday, February 11, 2023

Government weaponizing resources against their political opponents

The Biden Administration Is Colluding With Corporate Censors To Blacklist Dissidents

The State Department is funneling taxpayer dollars to a shadowy network of corporate censors to blacklist dissident media, the Washington Examiner’s Gabe Kaminsky reported Thursday night.

On Thursday morning, the Examiner published the paper’s first expose on the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a British group that compiles secretive lists of news organizations the index encourages major corporations to boycott.

Advertisers that seek out online platforms to promote their products contract with such “disinformation” groups and make decisions on which websites to advertise based on their recommendations.

Disinformation groups are also used by major tech giants to justify overt censorship. In August, the New York Times cited NewsGuard data to argue President Donald Trump’s Twitter alternative, TruthSocial, be banned from app stores. Google followed suit and nuked the app from its online marketplace.

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