A leftist U.S. government-funded “disinformation” tracker has been flagged for a major lack of transparency, despite its habitual smearing of right-leaning websites for allegedly committing the same offense. 
The Washington Examiner reported on Jan. 29 that the anti-free speech Global Disinformation Index (GDI), which received at least $100,000 from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, is lacking transparency. While GDI claims to rate online sites in part based on possible “conflicts of interests that can arise from opaque ownership structures,” per the Examiner, GDI itself clearly doesn’t practice what it preaches. Despite marketing itself as a nonpartisan and objective arbiter online, GDI has proved to have a leftist bias when blacklisting outlets and doesn’t abide by its own rules, the Examiner found. Hypocrisy much?
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