Biden Targets The American Spectator in Conservative Blacklisting

We’re not going anywhere.

Well, of course. Now comes the news that the Biden administration is using taxpayer dollars to blacklist, defund, and silence The American Spectator and other conservative media outlets. U.S. taxpayer dollars are being used to fund a leftist British censorship group calling itself the Global Disinformation Index. The news of all this first exploded in a series written by the Washington Examiner and reporter Gabe Kaminsky. The first Examiner blockbuster was headlined as follows:  Disinformation Inc: Meet the groups hauling in cash to secretly blacklist conservative news The Examiner reported:  EXCLUSIVE — Well-funded "disinformation" tracking groups are part of a stealth operation blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media, likely costing the news companies large sums in advertising dollars, a Washington Examiner investigation found.  Major ad companies are increasingly seeking guidance from purportedly "nonpartisan" groups claiming to be detecting and fighting online "disinformation." These same "disinformation" monitors are compiling secret website blacklists and feeding them to ad companies, with the aim of defunding and shutting down disfavored speech, according to sources familiar with the situation, public memos, and emails obtained by the Washington Examiner. The New York Post reports this, bold print for emphasis supplied: The "Global Disinformation Index," or GDI, is a British organization with a pair of US nonprofit affiliates. It receives hundreds of thousands of dollars from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center and the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy. The British “‘Global Disinformation Index,’ or GDI,” self-describes as follows: The Global Disinformation Index (GDI) is a nonprofit organisation that operates on the three principles of neutrality, independence and transparency. Our vision is a world free of disinformation and its harms, which undermine the trusted information ecosystems that are the foundation of democ...