Global Disinformation Index (GDI) is a not-for-profit organisation based in the United Kingdom which aims to mitigate the spread of disinformation on the internet.[1][2][3] The group utilises a system of ratings of news sources and websites to determine risk of disinformation.[4] The group's efforts also include investigations into internet advertising,[5] and the alleged use of disinformation in relation to COVID-19 featured on various websites.[2] The group has faced scrutiny over potential political bias,[6][7][8][9][10] and has been categorised as left-leaning think tank by the group AllSides.[11]
Overview
GDI was founded in 2018[12] by Clare Melford and Daniel Rogers,[13][14] and has received funding through a combination of charitable trusts, governmental organizations, and ad tech licensees of its dynamic exclusion list. Contributors include the Knight Foundation,[15][12][16] Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO),[17] and Luminate Group.[18]
A strategy promoted by GDI is the aim to remove financial incentives for news content that promotes adversarial narratives.[12][19] GDI's investigation of COVID-19 disinformation focussed on the generation of illicit revenue for websites.[20]
GDI has reported that a recent evaluation of Italian online news sites resulted in categorising one third of the evaluated sites as high risk of disinformation.[21]
See also
References
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- ^ a b Zendelovski, G., & Cvetkovski, S. (2021). The Pandemic of Fake News and Disinformation in the Age of Deglobalization. Security Dialogues.
- ^ Pratelli, M., & Petrocchi, M. (2022). A Structured Analysis of Journalistic Evaluations for News Source Reliability. arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.02736.
- ^ Glazunova, S., Dehghan, E., FitzGerald, K. M., Wikstrom, P., & Myint, Z. (2021). Disinformation Risk Assessment: The online news market in Australia.
- ^ Aaronson, S. (2021). Can Trade Agreements Solve the Wicked Problem of Disinformation (No. 2021-12).
- ^ Myers, Steven Lee (December 14, 2023). "State Dept.'s Fight Against Disinformation Comes Under Attack". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ Farber, Alex (April 22, 2024). "Foreign Office link to 'biased' report on unreliable news sites" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ^ "Hugh Linehan: Who watches the watchers when it comes to disinformation?". The Irish Times.
- ^ Sayers, F. (2024) Inside the disinformation industry A government-sponsored agency is censoring journalism. UnHerd. 17 April 2024. Accessed 26 April 2024.
- ^ "Der "Global Disinformation Index" bekämpft auch missliebige Meinungen" (in German). 19 April 2024.
- ^ Global Disinformation Index AllSides. Accessed 26 April 2024.
- ^ a b c Disinformation index www.rand.org. Accessed 26 April 2024.
- ^ Alexandra Mousavizadeh is listed as a founder by Rand Corp.
- ^ About. GDI. Accessed 26 April 2024.
- ^ Ignatidou, S. (2019). EU–US cooperation on tackling disinformation. International Security Department. September.
- ^ "Knight Research Network". Knight Foundation.
- ^ "Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament".
- ^ "Global Disinformation Index". www.luminategroup.com.
- ^ "FKN0058 - Evidence on Disinformation and 'fake news'".
- ^ Verrall, N. (2022). COVID-19 Disinformation, misinformation and malinformation during the pandemic infodemic: a view from the United Kingdom. In COVID-19 disinformation: a multi-national, whole of society perspective (pp. 81-112). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
- ^ Lesser, M., Stern, H. J., & Terp, S. J. (2022). Countering Russian Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation and Influence Campaigns in Italy Surrounding the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. In IFDaD.