Posted on 02/10/2023 8:23:32 PM PST by fwdude
A new report from the Washington Examiner has identified WND, a precedent-setter among online news sites that was founded back in 1997, is one among dozens of "conservative" news sites from which ad revenue is being blocked by a Microsoft subsidiary.
Among the false claims made against the sites is that they were peddling alleged "disinformation."
Other websites identified included the Washington Examiner itself, Daily Wire, Real Clear Politics, Hot Air, Newsmax, Daily Caller, Tea Party, Life News, MRCTV, Breitbart, Redstate, The Blaze and more.
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This is treason.
Hasn’t FR largely been on WND’s case for being “World Nut Daily” for quite some time now?
Are you siding with the left and calling WND “disinformation?”
The WND is like a lot of free speech sites. some of it is good and some is sort of strange. You have figure somethings out for yourself.
I gave up on WND some 15 years ago when Debbie Schlussel turned out to be coming up with some whoppers.
I don’t read WND, so have no independent experience with them to draw any conclusions.
I don’t think you answered my question.
WND, as WorldNet Daily, was among the original conservative news sites. They have had their share of nuts and weirdos, but on the whole are a good source of information. I don’t buy everything I read on other sites, either.
You would think the bigger of those names could pool their resources and build their own ad network.
It’s Whirled Nuts Daily and it’s a trash site that peddles baseless conspiracy theories and half truths, kinda like the New York Times.
However you have a Constitutional right to publish nutty conspiracy theories.
Caveat Emptor
… among dozens of “conservative” news sites from which ad revenue is being blocked by a Microsoft subsidiary.…
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MICROSOFT IS EVIL.
The ad companies blacklisting WND – namely Xandr, TripleLift and Teads – all cited vague breaches of their terms of service, including, and I quote, ‘any content that is illegal or otherwise contrary to any applicable law, regulation, directive, guideline or order, including without limitation any misleading, unethical, obscene, defamatory, deceptive, gambling-related or hateful content,’ etc. So it has nothing to do with 'disinformation.' If they don’t like your politics, you’re cancelled.” Other websites targeted included the Epoch Times, Hannity, Washington Times, Lifezette, Bill O'Reilly, Daily Signal, Judicial Watch, Chicks on the Right, Mike Huckabee, OANN, RSB Network, Charlie Kirk, Glenn Beck, American Thinker, Townhall, Newsbusters, Wayne Dupree, Louder with Crowder, CNS, Twitchy, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Free Republic, Law Enforcement Today and Drudge.
Meanwhile, with 300 network requests in about the first minute then WND is not lacking in ads.
To compare them to the slimes is really an off base comparison. WND may have some articles that aren’t worth reading but no way are they ‘agenda driven’ like the slimes. As for ‘conspiratorial’, it needs to be kept in mind that everything is conspiratorial until it has been proven to be true.... and lots of wild things initially called conspiratorial have been found to be true over the past few years.
For the record, I used to read them but don’t that often anymore... not for any particular reason other than the fact that there are only so many hours in the day and I’ve gravitated to other sites as my go-to sources of information.
Agree wait for what’s coming down the pike in the next two years with Biden and comrades.
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