Disinformation Inc 🔎: 'An effort to defund “risky” news websites is misleading Americans about what qualifies as disinformation and which news sources are worthy of their trust,' Henry Brechter writes.
The Global Disinformation Index recently published its 2022 “Disinformation Risk Assessment” on U.S. news media sources. The U.K.-based company’s rankings of the 10 “riskiest” and 10 “lowest risk” sources are heavily biased in favor of mainstream, liberal-leaning news outlets. The list was exposed in a series of Washington Examiner reports.If done right, this list could be immensely powerful. Companies, platforms, and consumers could avoid ill-intentioned actors.
AllSides, which uses multipartisan methods to rate media bias, rates 9 of the 10 “lowest risk” sources as having a left-wing bias. It rates 9 of the 10 “riskiest” sources as having a right-wing bias.Common dictionaries define disinformation as “false information intended to mislead.
Crucially, GDI doesn’t mention the political biases of its reviewers. This means readers have no clue whether its system is balanced or if it supports a partisan agenda. The Washington Examiner and others have highlighted recent six-figure grants from two different wings of the State Department to GDI. Those agencies are listed on GDI’s funders page alongside George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
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