House GOP Takes on Deep State-Funded Suppression of Right-Wing Media
By Jeff Charles | 6:36 PM on August 15, 2023
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The fallacious misinformation/disinformation industry might be facing deeper scrutiny soon. House Republicans are starting to look into various organizations working to censor right-leaning news sites on social media while also targeting their advertising revenue.
Earlier this year, multiple reports surfaced focusing on these groups, which have been working with Big Tech companies for years to suppress opinions on issues like COVID-19, elections, and others. What was truly galling about this is that the State Department has been shelling out millions of taxpayer dollars to fund these groups’ efforts to silence those expressing opinions that are not government-approved:
Conservative media outlets and journalists are fighting a network of organizations working to kill their advertising revenue by slapping them with misinformation labels.
The World Federation of Advertisers and its subsidiary, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media or GARM, have led the charge in steering blue-chip advertisers away from news outlets whose content it subjectively deems harmful, sensitive or “misinformation.” The British-based Global Disinformation Index and the U.S. company NewsGuard also have developed lists and ratings systems that attack credibility and scare advertisers away from top conservative news outlets.
House investigators have questioned Biden administration officials about funding the efforts and subpoenaed two of the organizations to determine whether their practices are violating antitrust laws.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is teaming up with House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) in investigating the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) for alleged efforts to “demonetize and censor disfavored speech online.” The lawmakers seek to obtain documents related to these operations to discover whether these groups are specifically targeting folks on the right.
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