{"id":1845936,"date":"2023-02-14T07:19:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845936"},"modified":"2023-02-14T07:20:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:20:54","slug":"conservative-news-sites-arent-risky-a-disinformation-index-to-censor-speech-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-news-sites-arent-risky-a-disinformation-index-to-censor-speech-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative News Sites Aren\u2019t \u2018Risky,\u2019 A \u2018Disinformation Index\u2019 To Censor Speech Is"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fconservative-news-sites-arent-risky-a-disinformation-index-to-censor-speech-is%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=1845936&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-->\n<p>\u201cTo reduce disinformation, we need to remove the financial incentive to create it,\u201d The Global Disinformation Index <a href=\"https:\/\/www.disinformationindex.org\/mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declares<\/a> You can find its mission page. The Washington Examiner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/disinformation-conservative-media-censored-blacklists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Exposed<\/a> last week, the self-appointed arbiter of truth doesn\u2019t seek to silence the legacy corporate outlets that repeatedly peddled false stories. It demands that conservative websites that have gotten those stories right are censored by naming them the &#8220;right-leaning&#8221; sites. \u201criskiest\u201d When it comes down to \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are many new outlets available that are not conservative. \u201crisky,\u201d however. And it isn\u2019t even \u201cdisinformation\u201d that\u2019s risky: Disinformation \u2014 whatever that means \u2014 can be countered with the truth.\u00a0What are you waiting for? <em>It is<\/em> It is risky to believe that experts can either dictate what is misleading or declare that such speech should not be allowed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A simple graphic from the GDI\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.disinformationindex.org\/research\/2022-10-21-brief-disinformation-risk-in-the-united-states-online-media-market-october-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Summary<\/a> The following are some of its \u201cDisinformation Risk in the United States Online Media Market,\u201d The implications of the GDI censorship approach are clearly outlined by the assertion that if outlets GDI seeks silenced, the public would continue to be ignorant about key questions such as national security, government malfeasance and corruption, as well as major policy issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For instance, compare the two first media outlets GDI identifies with the \u201cleast risky sites\u201d  \u201criskiest sites\u201d \u2014 NPR and the New York Post, respectively \u2014 and their coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story. The New York Post broke the story, and also provided an analysis of materials recovered from the MacBook. The material included information that could have implicated Joe Biden in a pay\u2013to-play scheme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/npr-were-not-covering-biden-laptop-scandal-because-its-not-really-a-story-pure-distractions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a> It did not cover the Hunter Biden story via Twitter. \u201cwe don\u2019t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don\u2019t want to waste the listeners\u2019 and readers\u2019 time on stories that are just pure distractions.\u201d NPR\u2019s failure to initially cover the story caused the government-funded outlet to remain ignorant of the basic facts, prompting NPR to later falsely <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/04\/02\/npr-issues-correction-after-claiming-hunter-biden-laptop-story-was-discredited-by-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Report<\/a> that the documents recovered from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop had been \u201cdiscredited by U.S. intelligence.\u201d NPR issued a correction to that disinformation later.<\/p>\n<p>In general, the outlets on the left \u2014 both politically and in GDI\u2019s graphic \u2014 either ignored the Biden family scandal or spun the story as representing Russian disinformation, with The Washington Post\u2019s so-called fact-checker even framing the New York Post\u2019s breaking news inaccurately as \u201chacked or leaked material.\u201d The \u201criskiest sites,\u201d In contrast, he reported the story and searched deeper for supporting information.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the corporate legacy outlets limiting their reporting on the materials contained on the abandoned laptop that suggested Joe Biden profited from Hunter\u2019s foreign business ventures, Twitter censored the story, and Facebook limited visibility of the scandal. Such censorship had serious consequences: Half of the respondents who were surveyed after Twitter\u2019s new owner, Elon Musk, revealed the details behind the efforts to block the New York Post story said they would have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11529381\/Hunter-Bidens-laptop-Voters-lacked-critical-information-2020-election-survey-shows.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Voted<\/a> They might have been different if they had known about the Biden family&#8217;s true story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global Disinformation Index doesn\u2019t seek to prevent disinformation. 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