Censorship By Proxy

The global monitoring networks, some of which are taxpayer funded, are suppressing conservative news media. Turns out there is now an investigation into the Biden administration funding these organizations! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This topic. The global monitoring networks, some of them taxpayer funded,
that are suppressing conservative news media by slapping them with
misinformation levels labels. Rather now they are a handful of
organization names you probably won't remember when I'll hit you
with them. The World Federation of Advertisers and its subsidiary subsidiary,
the Global Alliance for Responsible Media or GARM, have led

(00:25):
the charge in steering blue chip advertisers, the giant advertisers
and agencies away from news outlets whose content they subjectively
deem harmful, sensitive, or misinformation. This is just a massive,
economically brutal extension of the fact check COVID nineteen did

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not leak from the Wuhan lab but started in a
food market, a wet market, but again without just silencing
individual voices. It's economically devastating. British based Global Disinformation Index
and the US company NewsGuard also have developed lists and
ratings systems that attack the credibility and scare advertisers away

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from top conservative news outlets. House investigators are looking into this,
including the Biden administration funding these organizations to the tune
of hundreds of thousands of your taxpayer dollars. Jim Jordan
on the House Judiciary Committee of subpoena top officials from
a number of these organizations seeking documents related to coordinated
efforts to quote, demonetize, and censor disfavored speech online. There

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is collusion among all these places. And again the State
Department provided three hundred and thirty thousand dollars to this
Global Disinformation Index, a British firm that provides risk ratings
to major advertising companies to steer them away from certain
news sites. Wow, why would we be doing that at
all with taxpayer money? And here's maybe the funniest thing

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I'll say all week. And if we do have the
government fund organizations that tell you which media outlets are
good and which are bad, will they do it fairly? Oh?
Ho ho ho ho ho.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
But you don't. That's absolutely true and laughable. Haha, I
laugh to uh. But you don't even you don't even
you don't even need to go there. It's just what
is the role of the federal government. What is the
role of the federal government to persuade private companies where
they should advertise. That's crazy, particularly on a question of truth.

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I mean, that's that's that goes from unconstitutional to dangerous
to unholy right, and these companies have a real big
interest in making sure they advertise on places that aren't
going to do them damage. Obviously, I'm sure they would say, Hey,
you're getting all your panties are in a twist over

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our methods, and you're you're making assumptions about us.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
How about our results. Let's take a look at those results, folks.
So the index last year identified the following publications as
the riskiest sites, encouraging advertisers to avoid them, which means
trying to put them out of business. Make no mistake,
if all of our advertisers avoided us, we would just

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be talking to each other, probably go to a podcast
and figured out anyway. In twenty twenty two, here are
your riskiest sites that should not get any advertising dollars. Newsmax,
The New York Post, Oh wow, real clear politics.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
What so the my taxpayer money is going to companies
to convince them not to advertise with The New York Post.
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
The Daily Wire unmistakably conservative, but Ben Shapiro is painstakingly
the conscientious and incredibly smart. Don't advertise that to dangerous,
The American Spectator. Newsmax, they listed Newsmax twice, uh, Reason Magazine,

(04:09):
Good lord, are you serious? And the federalist federalist risky
sites the least risky sites. There are eight of them.
Count on your fingers, which of them are notably left
NPR on Wow.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
You've got to be kidding.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
No misinformation or disinformation ever on NPR, The Washington Post, Ding,
huff PO, Ding, The Insider, Ding, Pro Publica, Ding, We're
five for five Liberal, The Wall Street Journal back, Great
News Publication, USA Today, Ding, ap News Ding. Seven of

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the eight are notably indeniably, undeniably lefty. That and taxpayer
money is going to these organization.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
That is really a maddening story. It shouldn't happen at all.
That's just not the business of the government.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
I know this makes me militant wow for the government.
And this is yet another example. Friends, I'm sure you
remember there have been a couple others where Facebook, Twitter, etc.
The Biden administration reached out, pressured and threatened the social
media outlets for printing things they didn't like. It's censorship

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by proxy. It's an absolute slaughter of the First Amendment
by proxy. And I don't know precisely how to get
militant about this stuff. Let me think about it. Maybe
you have ideas email us mail bag at armstrong and
getty dot com. But I swear this is yet another
of my new jahads. We have got to fight this
tooth and nail. You have a lot of jahades. I

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really do,