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The Global Disinformation Index, a British group with two affiliated U.S. nonprofit organizations, has continued to come under fire for feeding conservative news blacklists to advertising companies. This same government-funded entity repeatedly applied pressure on companies to cut ties with websites promoting the once alleged right-wing "conspiracy" that COVID-19 emerged from a lab — which the Energy Department recently concluded is probable based on intelligence.
"GDI is part of [a] disturbing constellation of pop-up censorship organizations that all descended on stifling COVID origins discourse online simultaneously," Mike Benz, a former State Department official and director of Foundation For Freedom Online, a censorship watchdog, told the Washington Examiner.
A Sunday report by the Wall Street Journal revealed that the Energy Department has determined that a lab leak is the most likely culprit for the spread of COVID-19. In 2021, the FBI said with "moderate confidence" that a lab leak is likely the cause of the pandemic, while the CIA and another agency haven't reached a conclusion.
GDI, which compiles a "dynamic exclusion list" intended for brandsto target conservative websiteslike the Washington Examiner, has published several reports on alleged COVID-19 disinformation. The group notably received $665,000 combined between 2020 and 2021 from the State Department-backed Global Engagement Center and National Endowment for Democracy , a nonprofit group that has said it will no longer fund GDI.
GDI alleged in a February 2020 report dubbed "Coronavirus: The makings of a disinformation pandemic?" that "adversarial narratives" are emerging as a key ''disinformation tactic". The report called out Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) for raising the possibility on Fox News that COVID-19 came from a lab.
"By broadcasting the Senator's words to a national audience, this debunked conspiracy theory is given authority, validation and amplification," said GDI in the report.
One month later, in March 2020, GDI released a report titled, "Why is Ad Tech Funding These Ads on Coronavirus Conspiracy Sites?"
The report, which slammed Google and other companies for "providing ad revenue streams to known disinformation sites peddling coronavirus conspiracies," called out the conservative blog American Thinker for publishing a commentary article titled "The Wuhan Virus Escaped From a Chinese Lab." GDI also took aim at a company selling N-95 masks for advertising in the article.
Justin Goodman, senior vice president for advocacy and public policy at White Coat Waste Project, a federal spending watchdog, told the Washington Examiner:
"GDI's own content on the lab leak perfectly fits its own definition of 'disinformation. A growing majority of taxpayers, scientists around the world, lawmakers, and even the Biden Administration's FBI and Energy Department agree that dangerous animal experiments at the NIH-funded Wuhan lab caused COVID. Yet, in early 2020, before a pandemic was even declared and any investigation had taken place, GDI was apparently using U.S. taxpayers's money to gaslight the public by labeling the lab leak a 'conspiracy theory' and seeking to censor and demonetize media outlets reporting on it."
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Linking to an article casting doubt on the lab leak theory, GDI said in the report:
"All these lab conspiracy theories have been fact checked and proven untrue. The BBC recently debunked evidence of the Wuhan lab conspiracy by breaking down the timeline of events, the protocols in place to protect researchers and civilians from pathogens, and evaluations of [the] lab in Wuhan by U.S. officials.The same month that GDI released this report, the group's co-founder, Danny Rogers, appeared in an interview with GZERO Media. He alleged that "people are weaponizing conspiracy around" COVID-19 and "where it emerged," pointing to the March 2020 American Thinker article.
"As GDI consistently has argued, disinformation spreads across networks and starts out on the fringe, before moving into the mainstream. The case of the Wuhan lab conspiracy clearly shows this phenomenon."
Rogers isn't the only individual linked to GDI that dismissed the lab leak theory. So did Anne Applebaum, a liberal journalist on the group's advisory panel, which oversees the crafting of the dynamic exclusion list.
"Wow," Applebaum said in February 2020 in reaction to Cotton exploring the lab leak theory on Fox News:
GDI did not return a request for comment.
US D o D issued a contract to a Ukraine lab to study covid in 2019, 4 months before covid was officially named .
Not named by the WHO till Feb 11 2020.
Contract awarded to Labrynth Global Health in Nov 2019, part of a “ Biological Threat reduction program “ based in Ukraine, with Hunters Metabiota and Daszaks Eco Health Alliance involved in the research.
Also explains the full court press on the Donalds presidency, especially after his call with Zelensky that they impeached him over, and why they went after Flynn.
This is goes back to Obombers two terms, he and Binden were cleaning money and setting up the pandemic to get the Chinese, could not let them pass the US in economics, as they were poised to do.
Ukraine the centre for this g of function research that was supposedly cancelled.
This is all Pentagon D o D work, only explanation for the lies and obvious nature of the lockdowns and ignoring immunity. All the suspects will say they were told to do it, just like the Nazis in Nuremberg.
When the Donald shocked them all with a win, they just transitioned to plan b, but plan A the sabotage of the Chinese with a fake scamdemic and give them the death shot for free, like the good friends they were pretending to be, was caught out by Lieberman and the Chinese Scientists at Harvard, possibly by accident.
Also had info from the Canadian lab in Winnipeg, where all the Chineses Scientists were walked out and banned summer prior.
Also, the Top Lab boss in Canada, Dr Plummer , dropped dead in Kenya that fall, he was a HIV and AIDS expert and buddie of Dr Fakie.
Cant make this stuff up.
And to ensure no ivermectin was offered, check out what happened to the Shermans in Toronto in the year before that, Biovail!!