Global monitoring networks, some of them taxpayer-funded, suppress conservative news media

[HARK!]

Conservative media outlets and journalists are fighting a network of organizations working to kill their advertising revenue by slapping them with misinformation labels.

House investigators have questioned Biden administration officials about funding the efforts and subpoenaed two of the organizations to determine whether their practices are violating antitrust laws.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, subpoenaed top officials from GARM and the World Federation of Advertisers, or WFA, seeking documents related to coordinated efforts to “demonetize and censor disfavored speech online.”

Global monitoring networks, some of them taxpayer-funded, suppress conservative news media

Conservative media outlets and journalists are fighting a network of organizations working to kill their advertising revenue by slapping them with misinformation labels.

www.washingtontimes.com

 

[Pommer]

Conservative media outlets and journalists are fighting a network of organizations working to kill their advertising revenue by slapping them with misinformation labels.

House investigators have questioned Biden administration officials about funding the efforts and subpoenaed two of the organizations to determine whether their practices are violating antitrust laws.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, subpoenaed top officials from GARM and the World Federation of Advertisers, or WFA, seeking documents related to coordinated efforts to “demonetize and censor disfavored speech online.”

Global monitoring networks, some of them taxpayer-funded, suppress conservative news media

Conservative media outlets and journalists are fighting a network of organizations working to kill their advertising revenue by slapping them with misinformation labels.

www.washingtontimes.com

People are mad that their unpopular views are unpopular?

 

[essentialsaltes]

'Conservatives' against free enterprise.

 

[HARK!]

Conservatives' against free enterprise.

Sabotaging competition is somehow free enterprise?

 

[HARK!]

People are mad that their unpopular views are unpopular?

People are happy because the corporate media has more influence with their propaganda?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Sabotaging competition is somehow free enterprise?

Choosing freely whom you do business with is free enterprise. Having Jim Jordan force you to do business with people you don't want to is not free enterprise.

Look, many conservative cases in the courts these days are about businesses wanting the freedom to not do business with people, even if they are members of legally protected classes for discrimination. Political views are not a protected class, so there is no reason why companies can't favor one media outlet over another, particularly in the case of advertising, where clients are looking to reach a particular audience for their products. Target and Bud Light don't want to waste their money advertising on OAN at the moment.

 

[durangodawood]

I want to know more. But Ive been duped by Wa Times articles too many times before.

 

[HARK!]

I want to know more. But Ive been duped by Wa Times articles too many times before.

Oddly enough, the Liberal Media isn't covering this ongoing story.

Here is a press release from 5/5, strait from the HJC.

Chairman Jordan Subpoenas GARM and WFA for Documents and Communications

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) subpoenaed top officials from the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) for documents and communications related to their coordinated efforts to demonetize and...

judiciary.house.gov

Here is the letter from 3/22:

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-03-22-jdj-to-rakowitz-rajamannar-garm.pdf

 

[HARK!]

Choosing freely whom you do business with is free enterprise. Having Jim Jordan force you to do business with people you don't want to is not free enterprise.

I'm still trying to figure out how using tax dollars to destroy the Conservative voice, as an expression of free enterprise; let alone Democracy.

 

[essentialsaltes]

I'm still trying to figure out how using tax dollars to destroy the Conservative voice

The efforts appear to be aimed at avoiding the promotion of harmful content: violence and misinformation. If that's synonymous with conservatism, then so much the worse for conservatism.

 

[HARK!]

The efforts appear to be aimed at avoiding the promotion of harmful content: violence and misinformation.

According to what I have read, this looks like misinformation.

Care to site your source?

 

[Nithavela]

Conservative media outlets and journalists are fighting a network of organizations working to kill their advertising revenue by slapping them with misinformation labels.

Have those media outlets and journalists tried to not publish misinformation?

Seems like an easy fix.

 

[essentialsaltes]

According to what I have read, this looks like misinformation.

Care to site your source?

GARM is the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, a cross-industry initiative established by the World Federation of Advertisers to address the challenge of harmful content on digital media platforms and its monetization via advertising.

 

[HARK!]

Have those media outlets and journalists tried to not publish misinformation?

How does that explain the perfect scores for Liberal media sites that have published egregious misinformation such as the Steel Dossier, or the Federalist receiving a score of 12.5 for publishing well documented questions regarding the effectiveness of mask mandates.

 

[HARK!]

GARM is the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, a cross-industry initiative established by the World Federation of Advertisers to address the challenge of harmful content on digital media platforms and its monetization via advertising.

Well that's very much different than the misinformation that you presented; isn't it.

Are you asserting that Conservatism is generally harmful?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Well that's very much different than the misinformation that you presented; isn't it.

It is not.

Are you asserting that Conservatism is generally harmful?

No. I'm asserting these groups are looking to protect advertisers and their clients from promoting harmful information.

Jim Jordan is asserting these groups are looking to protect advertisers and their clients from promoting conservative media.

 

[HARK!]

It is not.

You continue to make some pretty bold assumptions.

Jim Jordan is asserting these groups are looking to protect advertisers and their clients from promoting conservative media.

More misinformation?

Care to quote him on that; or are you just assuming that is what he actually said?

 

[essentialsaltes]

Care to quote him on that; or are you just assuming that is what he actually said?

My mistake in trusting the Washington Times to accurately reflect the situation. It appears the Washington Times makes the explicit connection to conservative media. ETA: although it does preface one such claim with "Jordan said"

 

[HARK!]

My mistake in trusting the Washington Times to accurately reflect the situation. It appears the Washington Times makes the explicit connection to conservative media.

This is exactly what the HJC is addressing; so this is accurate reporting, while the corporate controlled Liberal media ignores this egregious violation of human rights.

 

[essentialsaltes]

OK, so after that useless orbit on the tilt-a-whirl, we are back to:

The efforts appear to be aimed at avoiding the promotion of harmful content.