EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Schmitt Demands Answers From State Department-Funded Censorship Org

Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt on Thursday demanded the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) provide information on its efforts to blacklist conservative news sites in a letter exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

GDI, a nonprofit based in the United Kingdom, compiles lists of sites — such as conservative media outlets — that it deems as spreading “disinformation” and shares these lists with advertising firms to demonetize the outlets, the Washington Examiner first reported. Despite describing itself as “non-political,” GDI consistently assigns higher disinformation risk ratings to conservative media while rating liberal outlets as safer in its “Disinformation Risk Assessment.”