The head of a State Department-backed think tank under congressional investigation for starving conservative media of advertising dollars is set to teach a one-day course on the 'economics of disinformation,' records show.
The head of a State Department-backed think tank under congressional investigation for starving conservative media of advertising dollars is set to teach a one-day course on the"economics of disinformation," records show.
The European Digital Media Observatory, which is based at the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance in Florence, Italy, counts the likes of the University of Amsterdam, a think tank called the Integrity Institute that dubs itself"a community of integrity professionals protecting the social internet," and Aarphus University in Denmark, according to its website.
The application states,"GDI will share how it creates independent risk signals about online news content that are being used by technology companies that use algorithms to put content in front of us. And how when given the choice, advertisers choose not to place their ads on the most polarizing content on the internet."
"While fighting the so called 'economics of disinformation,' GDI is peddling their own 'economics of censorship' abroad and billing the U.S. taxpayers," Pete McGinnis, a spokesman for the Functional Government Initiative, an ethics watchdog, told the Washington Examiner. "These efforts empower the ever-growing censorship industrial complex determined to police free speech and punish those who threaten their narrative and special interests," McGinnis said."Asking the public to fund censorship efforts like GDI is government dysfunction at its worst."
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