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A United Nations (U.N.) policy proposal that outlines how to combat online "mis- and disinformation and hate speech," including through demonetization, is informed by work from groups that actively push to censor conservative speech online.
The policy brief, titled "Information Integrity on Digital Platforms," is intended to help develop an online "code of conduct" that the U.N. plans to unveil during its Summit of the Future in 2024, calls for demonetization and suppressing the spread of what it considers "mis- and disinformation and hate speech."
As examples of effective strategies, the policy proposal routinely cites organizations that have explicitly worked to censor conservatives or have advocated for the censoring of conservative viewpoints.
"The American public should be skeptical of any attempt by the U.N. to monitor, regulate, or control speech," Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public's Trust, a government watchdog that among other things monitors state-directed censorship efforts, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
"It is not surprising that the organization that elevates the likes of Iran, North Korea, China, and other oppressive regimes would reference or partner with entities that participate in efforts to suppress speech that does not fit approved narratives."
The global organization's brief recommends "exclusion lists" to help advertisers avoid funding what the U.N. considers to be "mis- and disinformation and hate speech," citing the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) as an example of a "civil society" group that has been successful in demonetizing so-called disinformation. GDI is a United Kingdom-based nonprofit that describes itself as a "non-political" monitor that seeks to "disrupt the business model of disinformation," according to its website.
GDI has confidential "exclusion lists" that it sells to online advertising companies for the purpose of demonetizing speech, according to the Washington Examiner. Although the blacklists are private, GDI does publicize the "disinformation" risk scores it assigns to many news outlets, giving conservative news outlets high risk scores and liberal news outlets low risk scores in its "Disinformation Risk Assessment."
For example, GDI rated NPR and The New York Times as "minimum" risk level, The Washington Post and BuzzFeed as "low" risk level, The New York Post and Daily Wire as "high" risk level and The Federalist and Newsmax as "maximum" risk level.
The U.S. State Department funded GDI through its Global Engagement Center, the DCNF first reported.
Additionally, the U.N. credits GDI for "noting that while freedom of expression is a fundamental human right, profiting from it is not."
Get rid of the UN, come on, not that hard to figure out, IMO!
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