On Monday’s The Ingraham Angle on Fox News, host Laura Ingraham reported on how a think tank called the “Global Disinformation Index” compiled a “dynamic exclusion list” to help advertisers avert “risky” right-wing websites engaging in “misinformation.” The list included the New York Post, The Blaze, the Daily Wire, and The Federalist. The censors’ list of “reliable” sites included NPR and the New York Times, but also HuffPost and BuzzFeed, which printed the “Steele Dossier,” a complete garbage barge of Russian-collusion misinformation.
Joseph Vazquez with MRC’s Free Speech America discusses the censors like GDI and NewsGuard. For the third year running, NewsGuard has demonstrated it finds the liberal prestige press far more credible than conservative sites. Out of 100, the top liberal sites average a 91 percent rating, while the conservative sites average a 65. How would that look on your average report card?
We also discuss Alexander Soros, the heir to the George Soros empire of leftist advocacy. Soros named his self-proclaimed “more political” son Alex as the new leader of the Open Society Foundations in June. This follows after Alex was chosen to lead his father’s enormous political action committee — Democracy PAC — in 2022.
The Free Speech America team just made a list of the Worst Censors of 2023, and declared Google is 2023’s WORST censor, having engaged in alarming election-interfering censorship. A new FSA study showed that Big Tech manipulated the message, and/or suppressed the campaign website, of 23 of the 2024 presidential candidates at least once.
Then there’s PolitiFact founder Bill Adair proclaiming that the fact checkers have to forget their old model of just posting on their website, and aggressively press tech companies and social media platforms to “expand the use of fact-checking data to suppress misinformation.”
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