THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS ITSELF A MAJOR PURVEYOR OF DISINFORMATION: U.S. State Department Funds a Disinformation Index That Warns Advertisers To Avoid Reason: Reason is listed among the “ten riskiest online news outlets” by a government-funded disinfo tracker. “Should the State Department spend public money to help an organization pressure advertisers to punish U.S. media companies? The answer, quite obviously, is no: The First Amendment prohibits the U.S. government from censoring private companies for good reason, and government actors should not seek to evade the First Amendment’s protections in order to censor indirectly or exert pressure inappropriately.”
Pretty much all “disinformation trackers” and similar outfits are simply adjuncts to censorship. They do not operate in good faith, nor do they want to.
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