{"id":422,"date":"2024-04-18T12:39:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T10:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otc-com.dk\/?p=422"},"modified":"2024-04-18T12:39:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T10:39:16","slug":"inside-the-disinformation-industry-a-government-sponsored-agency-is-censoring-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoptechnocracy.eu\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/inside-the-disinformation-industry-a-government-sponsored-agency-is-censoring-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the disinformation industry A government-sponsored agency is censoring journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">SOURCE: UnHerd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur team re-reviewed the domain, the rating will not change as it continues to have anti-LGBTQI+ narratives\u2026 The site authors have been called out for being anti-trans. Kathleen Stock is acknowledged as a \u2018prominent gender-critical\u2019 feminist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was part of an email sent to&nbsp;<em>UnHerd<\/em>&nbsp;at the start of January from an organisation called the Global Disinformation Index. It was their justification, handed down after a series of requests, for placing&nbsp;<em>UnHerd<\/em>&nbsp;on a so-called \u201cdynamic exclusion list\u201d of publications that supposedly promote \u201cdisinformation\u201d and should therefore be boycotted by all advertisers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They provided examples of the offending content: Kathleen Stock, whose columns are up for a National Press Award this week, Julie Bindel, a lifelong campaigner against violence against women, and Debbie Hayton, who is transgender. Apparently the GDI equates \u201cgender-critical\u201d beliefs, or maintaining that biological sex differences exist, with \u201cdisinformation\u201d \u2014 despite the fact that those beliefs are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jmw.co.uk\/services-for-you\/employment-law\/blog\/what-does-decision-forstater-v-cgd-mean-employers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">specifically protected<\/a>&nbsp;in British law and held by the majority of the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Inside the &#039;disinformation&#039; industry\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ILEMV0xKGh4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The verdicts of \u201cratings agencies\u201d such as the GDI, within the complex machinery that serves online ads, are a little-understood mechanism for controlling the media conversation. In&nbsp;<em>UnHerd<\/em>\u2019s case, the GDI verdict means that we only received between 2% and 6% of the ad revenue normally expected for an audience of our size. Meanwhile, neatly demonstrating the arbitrariness and subjectivity of these judgements, Newsguard, a rival ratings agency, gives&nbsp;<em>UnHerd<\/em>&nbsp;a 92.5% trust rating, just ahead of the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;at 87.5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what are these \u201cratings agencies\u201d that could be the difference between life and death for a media company? How does their influence work? And who funds them? The answers are concerning and raise serious questions about the freedom of the press and the viability of a functioning democracy in the internet age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2024\/04\/inside-the-disinformation-industry\/\">Read full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOURCE: UnHerd \u201cOur team re-reviewed the domain, the rating will not change as it continues to have anti-LGBTQI+ narratives\u2026 The site authors have been called out for being anti-trans. Kathleen Stock is acknowledged as a \u2018prominent gender-critical\u2019 feminist.\u201d This was part of an email sent to&nbsp;UnHerd&nbsp;at the start of January from an organisation called the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-censorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoptechnocracy.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoptechnocracy.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoptechnocracy.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoptechnocracy.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoptechnocracy.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stoptechnocracy.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/stoptechnocracy.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoptechnocracy.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoptechnocracy.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoptechnocracy.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoptechnocracy.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}