LISTEN: Gabe Kaminsky talks State Department bankrolled conservative media ‘blacklist’
Julia Johnson
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The Washington Examiner’s Gabe Kaminsky joined Morning Wire on Tuesday to discuss a group that is putting conservative media on blacklists — which also happens to be bankrolled by the State Department.
“Global Disinformation Index has publicly said that the 10 riskiest outlets are ‘the American Spectator, Newsmax, the Federalist, the American Conservative, One America News, TheBlaze, the Daily Wire, RealClearPolitics, Reason, and the New York Post,'” he explained in an interview with the Daily Wire’s morning podcast.
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“We actually spoke, on the condition of anonymity, with a member of the GDI’s board, which has oversight over who gets added to that exclusion list. That individual had said it would be likely that all outlets on that risky list would also be on the blacklist, therefore losing out of critical ad dollars,” Kaminsky said.
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The organization also keeps lists that it recommends advertising companies work with.
“Several of these outlets on this list, including [the Huffington Post] and BuzzFeed News, were major peddlers and pushers of the notion that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation,” he explained.
“In addition to that, BuzzFeed News, for example, published the Steele Dossier, which the Hillary Clinton campaign fed to the FBI in order to link former President Donald Trump to Russia, and obviously that story had been heavily debunked,” Kaminsky continued.
The Washington Examiner broke the story about the State Department’s connection to the apparently politically motivated GDI earlier this month.
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The story continues to develop and is being chronicled through the Washington Examiner’s “Disinformation Inc.” series.
Read more from the Disinformation Inc. series here.