{"id":1842830,"date":"2023-02-11T07:04:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T12:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1842830"},"modified":"2023-02-11T07:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T12:52:47","slug":"soros-tied-disinfo-group-is-reportedly-blacklisting-conservative-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soros-tied-disinfo-group-is-reportedly-blacklisting-conservative-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Soros-Tied Disinfo Group Is Reportedly Blacklisting Conservative Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsoros-tied-disinfo-group-is-reportedly-blacklisting-conservative-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1842830&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This week,<em> Washington Examiner<\/em>\u00a0Uncovered \u201cDisinformation Inc.\u201d How it makes money blacklisting conservative \u201cdisinformation\u201d spreaders. One of them \u201cdisinformation\u201d Trackers has many ties to George Soros, liberal billionaire.\u00a0<img id=\"\" class=\"image-blog_image_50_ img-fluid blog-img\" style=\"display: none;\" alt=\"\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Examiner<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/disinformation-conservative-media-censored-blacklists\">Exclusively released Feb. 9, 2009.<\/a> Learn more \u201cwell-funded \u2018disinformation\u2019 tracking groups are part of a stealth operation blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media\u201d Using advertising revenue to deprive them.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Disinformation Index is a leftist British organization with two U.S. non-profit affiliates. <em>Examiner<\/em> identified. According to MRC Free Speech America research GDI has three advisor board members who have ties to George Soros (leftist billionaire).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe radical left knows better than anyone that the best way to upend America and destroy freedom is to muzzle the voices of their opposition,\u201d Vice President of MRC Free Speech America &amp; MRC Business <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/staff\/dan-schneider\">Dan Schneider<\/a> said. \u201cThey masquerade as defenders of information, but we all know that they\u2019re just authoritarian thugs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to major advertising companies, they are seeking more \u201cguidance\u201d Combating the supposed \u201cdisinformation\u201d Online, the <em>Examiner <\/em>reported. According to the so-called \u201cnonpartisan\u201d However, the groups to which advertising companies turn are then said to compile. \u201csecret website blacklists\u201d These are targeted at conservative media. According to the memos and emails of the sources, the objective is to silence speech that these groups don&#8217;t approve of.<em> Examiner<\/em>. One of these powerful entities is GDI.<\/p>\n<p>GDI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.disinformationindex.org\/about\/\">A panel of advisors<\/a> Three Soros-tied Members Advisory Panel member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/voices\/elections-alone-are-not-enough-could-citizens-assemblies-save-democracy-in-germany\">Finn Heinreich<\/a> is Soros\u2019 Open Society Initiative for Europe division director for transparency, accountability, and participation. This directly makes Heinrich one of Soros\u2019 flunkies. GDI Lists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/expert\/ben-nimmo\/\">Ben Nimmo<\/a> As part of the Atlantic Council&#8217;s website. His profile says he was nonresident senior fellow at the leftist organisation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/joseph-vazquez\/2022\/05\/19\/did-idea-bidens-ministry-truth-originate-soros-funded\">Funded<\/a> By Soros (the <em>Examiner<\/em> He also said that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benimmo\/status\/1357813522823004160?s=46&amp;t=d-3NtZ6eV0LR9zjkf6cprQ\">Works<\/a> Meta<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/author\/cristina\/\">Cris Tard\u00e1guila,<\/a> another GDI advisory panel member, was the former director of the Soros-funded Poynter Institute\u2019s International Fact Checking Network (IFCN). GDI currently shows Tard\u00e1guila representing the IFCN on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundations (OSF) gave IFCN $492,000 between 2016 and 2020, as MRC Business noted in its <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.mrc.org\/static\/pdfuploads\/PropagandaPowerhouse_FullReport_FINAL_LINKED.pdf-1674854430630.pdf\">Report<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/business\/joseph-vazquez\/2023\/01\/31\/george-soros-propaganda-powerhouse\"><em>George Soros: Propaganda Powerhouse<\/em><\/a> January 2023. OSF also provided this service. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/grants\/past?filter_keyword=Atlantic+Council\">$768,085<\/a> The Atlantic Council between 2016-2021<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2017-2021.state.gov\/biographies\/michael-a-benz\/index.html\">Mike Benz<\/a>The State Department&#8217;s former deputy assistant for internal communication policy called the work of outfits like NewsGuard or the Soros-tied GDI \u201cdevastating\u201d Comment to the <em>Examiner<\/em>. \u201cThe implementation of ad revenue crushing sentinels like News[G]uard, Global Disinformation Index, and the like has completely crippled the potential of alternative news sources to compete on an even economic playing field with approved media outlets like CNN and [T]he New York Times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MRC Free Speech America provides a href=&#8221;https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/catherine-salgado\/2022\/03\/09\/biased-newsguard-rates-7-traditionally-non&#8221;&gt;repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/catherine-salgado\/2022\/12\/06\/biased-newsguard-gives-tucker-010-credibility-cnns\">Shown<\/a> Just how <a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/catherine-salgado\/2022\/02\/02\/absurd-newsguard-rates-oann-newsmax-lifenews-less\">biased<\/a> NewsGuard is. The ratings company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/joseph-vazquez\/2021\/12\/13\/study-newsguard-ratings-system-heavily-skews-favor-left\">Rated<\/a> Left-leaning outlets are much more popular than right-leaning ones. It also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/catherine-salgado\/2022\/03\/11\/newsguard-ceo-company-helps-advertisers-find\">You can boast<\/a> aiding ad companies to divert money away from so-called \u201cmisinformation\u201d online.<\/p>\n<p>It should not be surprising that given the obvious ties to leftist organizations, it should not surprise that \u201call of the websites that GDI ranks as the \u2018least risky\u2019 lean left in their news coverage \u2014 minus <em>[T]he Wall Street Journal<\/em>,\u201d The following was reported: <em>Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>GDI\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.disinformationindex.org\/mission\">Website<\/a> It claims that its mission is to \u201cremove the financial incentive&#8221; to spread alleged &#8220;disinformation.&#8221; It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.disinformationindex.org\/product\">adds<\/a> that its &#8220;core output&#8221; is a &#8220;dynamic exclusion list,\u201d Rating news outlets on the basis a presumed \u201crisk\u201d Factor of \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Conservatives under attack<\/em><\/strong><em>. Tell your representatives to insist that Big Tech and government agencies be held responsible for the First Amendment. Contact us at the Media Research Center if you feel your voice has been blocked. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/censortrack.org\/about#Contact\"><em>Use the contact form<\/em><\/a><em>Help us hold Big Tech responsible.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Washington Examiner\u00a0Uncovered \u201cDisinformation Inc.\u201d How it makes money blacklisting conservative \u201cdisinformation\u201d spreaders. One of them \u201cdisinformation\u201d Trackers has many ties to George Soros, liberal billionaire.\u00a0 The Examiner Exclusively released Feb. 9, 2009. Learn more \u201cwell-funded \u2018disinformation\u2019 tracking groups are part of a stealth operation blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media\u201d Using advertising &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Soros-Tied Disinfo Group Is Reportedly Blacklisting Conservative Media","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[10059,9781,4914,4188,4292,15347],"class_list":["post-1842830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-disinfo","tag-blacklisting","tag-conservative","tag-media","tag-reportedly","tag-soros-tied"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Soros-Tied Disinfo Group Is Reportedly Blacklisting Conservative Media","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}