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11-459: GDI was founded in 2018 by Clare Melford , Alexandra Mousavizadeh and Daniel Rogers, 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 , Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), and Luminate Group . One of its strategies promoted by GDI

22-530: A lawsuit by The Daily Wire and The Federalist , two U.S. right-wing websites, against the State Department. The State Department-funded National Endowment for Democracy announced in 2023 that it would no longer fund GDI. After the series of stories, Microsoft 's Xandr cut ties with GDI and exited the political advertising space. Congress passed a law in 2023 that banned the Pentagon from funding GDI in

33-560: A leadership role in the transition of the European Council on Foreign Relations to independent status from previously being a part of George Soros ' Open Society Foundations . She has been CEO of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a not-for-profit organisation which provides disinformation risk ratings, but in 2020 the subject was listed as secretary with no compensation in federal tax filings. She explained in

44-661: A talk delivered to the Royal Society of Arts that it was while she was general manager of the Nordic region of MTV that she developed a critical understanding of how the media station provided a supportive selling environment for unsustainable lifestyles, which led to her giving up that position and becoming interested in Buddhism . MTV Nordic MTV Nordic was a pan-European cable television network launched on 5 June 1998. A 24-hour English-language network aimed at viewers in

55-410: Is the aim to remove financial incentives for news content that promotes "adversarial narratives". GDI's investigation of COVID-19 disinformation focused on the generation of illicit revenue for websites. 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. GDI's alleged bias was first reported by

66-530: The Washington Examiner , a U.S. conservative website, which released an investigative series in February 2023 that said GDI was "part of a stealth operation blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media, likely costing the news companies large sums in advertising dollars". The journalist who authored that series of stories, Gabe Kaminsky, pointed out that all 10 outlets that GDI in a report identified as

77-475: The "riskiest" and "worst" all leaned to the political right while all but one of the 10 ranked "least risky" leaned to the political left. Kaminsky said that GDI received $ 100,000 from the U.S. Department of State . However, the State Department has denied that the grant was used to "blacklist" any companies in the U.S. The series in the Washington Examiner sparked outcry among conservatives, and prompted

88-635: The GDI website as she had not been in contact with GDI since 2019. Clare Melford Clare Melford was the CEO of the International Business Leaders Forum from November 2010 until she stepped down in November 2012 . She graduated from Oxford University and trained as a management consultant at Marakon Associates . She worked as general manager for MTV Nordic for eight years. She took

99-453: The Nordic countries and other European territories. Between 1998 and 2006 MTV Nordic served the majority of European territories (that did not have their own localized MTV channel) under the branding MTV Europe & Nordic. The majority of programming was hosted by presenters from the Nordic countries, mainly Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Additional veejays came from Israel, United States, Ireland and

110-684: The United Kingdom. The channel gradually began to localize in May 2005 with the launch of MTV Denmark and in September 2005 the launch of MTV Sweden , MTV Norway and MTV Finland , which resulted in the MTV Nordic ceasing as a brand. On February 22, 2019, the local MTV channels for the Nordic region were replaced by the relaunch of MTV Nordic which features no advertising or sponsorships. Despite this, separate social media accounts and websites still exist for

121-1094: The future for military recruitment advertising. In April 2024, UnHerd CEO Freddie Sayers criticized GDI after it placed UnHerd on its "dynamic exclusion list", leading to a reduction in UnHerd's advertising revenue . Sayers argued that GDI's determination was based on ideological disagreements rather than factual inaccuracies. In response, Elon Musk , the CEO of Twitter , called for GDI to be shut down. Following UnHerd's article, UK Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch joined around 10 MPs in raising concerns about GDI and their approach to distinguishing between free speech and disinformation. In response to Badenoch's concerns, Foreign Secretary David Cameron stated that FCDO had ceased funding GDI in 2023 and did not plan to resume funding. Until March 2023, GDI publicly disclosed members of its "Advisory Panel". Amongst others, these have included Anne Applebaum , Peter Pomerantsev , Miguel Martinez and Hany Farid . Reason reported in February 2023 that Applebaum had asked for her name to removed from

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