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Global Disinformation Index redacts its IRS forms to hide the names of board members

First off, anything with “disinformation” in its name is guaranteed to be a bad idea; look no further than the U.S. government’s own Disinformation Governance Board, chaired by a woman who called the Hunter Biden laptop story a “fairy tale.”

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There are a number of groups out there (Media Matters, Sleeping Giants) whose business it is to scare away advertisers from conservative outlets. Among them is the mysterious Global Information Index, which reportedly is trying to keep some of that mystery intact.

The Washington Examiner’s Gabe Kaminsky reports that the Global Information Index is trying to keep the names of its board members secret because of “harassment.”

Kaminsky writes:

Two U.S. nonprofit groups tied to the Global Disinformation Index, a British entity blacklisting conservative media outlets, are refusing to disclose key details about their operations, citing an obscure federal exemption law on “harassment,” according to a Washington Examiner investigation.

The private AN Foundation, also known as the Disinformation Index Foundation, and its affiliated public charity, Disinformation Index Inc., provided the Washington Examiner with heavily redacted copies of their 2021 IRS tax returns. A lawyer for the two entities is alleging that these redactions were made because the groups are the target of a coordinated “harassment campaign,” a claim that multiple tax experts warn does not allow them to hide information on officers, board members, and, in the case of one group, omit the source of a donation.

The lack of transparency on tax forms filed by the GDI groups could result in lawmakers and watchdog groups propelling their investigations into the purported “disinformation” tracking network, which has come under fire ever since a Washington Examiner report on Feb. 9 detailed its efforts to feed blacklists of conservative websites to advertisers. Several Republican members of Congress, including House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), have demanded answers from the State Department for steering grant money to GDI between 2020 and 2021.

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“The Washington Examiner only learned through sources in the ad industry that it was on this blacklist and was never directly informed by GDI,” Kaminsky adds.

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But “the Index’s personnel and their families have received multiple threats and hacking attacks, including threats of violence against their children.” Did anyone at GDI have to provide proof of this harassment before handing over the forms? Or is that just their defense for redacting everything?

Note: We corrected a typo in the headline. sj

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