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Inside the disinformation industry A government-sponsored agency is censoring journalism
Unherd ^ | April 17, 2024 | Freddy Sayers

Posted on 04/18/2024 6:40:18 AM PDT by heartwood

"Our team re-reviewed the domain, the rating will not change as it continues to have anti-LGBTQI+ narratives… The site authors have been called out for being anti-trans. Kathleen Stock is acknowledged as a ‘prominent gender-critical’ feminist.”

This was part of an email sent to UnHerd 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 UnHerd on a so-called “dynamic exclusion list” of publications that supposedly promote “disinformation” and should therefore be boycotted by all advertisers.

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 “gender-critical” beliefs, or maintaining that biological sex differences exist, with “disinformation” — despite the fact that those beliefs are specifically protected in British law and held by the majority of the population.

(Excerpt) Read more at unherd.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: censorship; dissent; enemieslist; freespeech; gdi; technofascism
Fascism: private ownership, government control, secret policing.
1 posted on 04/18/2024 6:40:18 AM PDT by heartwood
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To: heartwood

What journalism? Has to be the easiest job in the world...


2 posted on 04/18/2024 6:43:56 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: heartwood
Imagine censoring the original misinformation machine. now that's totalitarianism.
3 posted on 04/18/2024 6:46:26 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: Common Sense 101

Uh, seems like they don’t understand the word. Or their role in the “disinformation industry”.


4 posted on 04/18/2024 6:49:27 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: heartwood

And not just in the US...


5 posted on 04/18/2024 6:49:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: heartwood

[[‘prominent gender-critical’ feminist.”]]

Retty fancy title for a fascist


6 posted on 04/18/2024 7:02:52 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Im under the perception that the “gender-critical” is the factually correct side. She doesn’t believe that made up “gender” is superior to actual biological sex. Just putting on a dress and insisting on being called Loretta doesn’t make a man into a woman.


7 posted on 04/18/2024 7:11:02 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: heartwood

WHERE IS THE SURPRISE????


8 posted on 04/18/2024 7:31:44 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: KarlInOhio

Maybe I read it wrong- I assumed from the excerpt that she was one of the people responsible for censoring speech? My mind is mush today


9 posted on 04/18/2024 7:34:12 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: heartwood

Government control, secret policing.

Makes one wonder who the major stock holders are?.


10 posted on 04/18/2024 12:23:21 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: heartwood

Nearly our entire federal bureaucracy is directly opposite of the US Constitution they have sworn an oath to protect and uphold.


11 posted on 04/18/2024 12:29:50 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: heartwood
Pointing out disinformation as disinformation can get you arrested for spreading disinformation.
Is there any doubt that it's our enemies who are making up the rules?

12 posted on 04/18/2024 2:03:06 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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