Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., demanded Thursday that the Global Disinformation Index provide specifics on its efforts to blacklist conservative news sites, in a letter exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
GDI, a nonprofit based in the United Kingdom, compiles lists of sites—such as conservative media outlets—that it deems as spreading “disinformation” and shares these lists with advertising firms to demonetize the outlets, the Washington Examiner first reported.
Despite describing itself as “nonpolitical,” the Global Disinformation Index consistently assigns higher ratings of disinformation risk to conservative media while rating liberal outlets as safer in its “Disinformation Risk Assessment.”
Schmitt expressed concern in the letter about GDI’s previously receiving funds from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center,…
