On Saturday, a group of talk radio hosts, including Bill Spadea from New Jersey 101.5 FM, joined Wendy Bell on Newsmax TV to discuss the reported exclusion of conservative media outlets from receiving their fair share of advertising revenue.
According to Breitbart, The Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a foreign thinktank, is working to prevent conservative news outlets from accessing advertising funds. GDI has reportedly created an evaluation of American digital media that seeks to categorize conservative media sources and obstruct their advertising revenue, which is stored on their “Dynamic Exclusion List.”
On the list, Newsmax TV was placed as the ninth organization accused of spreading misinformation, whereas the GDI has recognized National Public Radio (NPR), AP News, The New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post as the most trustworthy news outlets globally.
“We just had a bill passed in New Jersey, which allows the Department of Education to decide what’s real and fake news,” Spadea said. “I had Dr. Ben Carson on my show [New Jersey 101.5 FM] to talk about this. Now we have the same group of bureaucrats who have forced this sexualized curriculum on our grade schoolers deciding what’s good and bad. It was written by a left-wing professor at one of our universities.”
In December, GDI published a report in collaboration with the Global Disinformation Lab (GDIL), a think tank based at the University of Texas at Austin. The report discussed the purported “disinformation risk” faced by the American online media market and presented policy recommendations and solutions to tackle this issue.
“This is all political,” Spadea added. “They’ve gone so far, when AT&T cancelled Newsmax, I said I think this is actually good news because I think this is going to drive the common person to say, if they’re being banned, I want to tune-in.”
