Microsoft has deleted the "negative flags" for conservative news outlets, including Newsmax, that were previously blocked from getting advertising dollars.
The Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a foreign think tank headquartered in the United Kingdom, released an assessment of American online media designed to blacklist conservative media outlets and choke off their advertising revenue. The information is kept on what GDI calls its “Dynamic Exclusion List.”
"It's objective by whose standard? ... That standard seems to be White, educated, and fairly wealthy," noted Kathleen Carroll, former executive editor at the Associated Press.
Several legacy media companies have begun publishing articles warning Americans of misinformation, extremism, and Russian hacks in preparation for 2022 midterm denials.
Thousands of guns and gun parts were stolen from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) between 2016 and 2019, according to the Justice Department Office of the Inspector General (OIG).