The Free Beacon released a report on the far-left censorship group, the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), and its funders.
According to the Free Beacon, George Soros and his Open Society Foundations donated $250,000 to the CCDH for their work in silencing conservative media outlets like The Gateway Pundit, The Federalist, The Daily Wire, Zero Hedge, and others.
The Free Beacon reported that the grant provided “general support” to the British nonprofit, which works to pressure social media companies, advertisers, and investors into censoring content it deems “hate” or “disinformation.”
Former Labour Party operative Imran Ahmed founded the organization. How his background as a far left political operative prepared Ahmed to define himself as an expert in disinformation is unclear.
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, the CCDH published a report titled, Defund Racism: Black Lives Matter was used to urge advertisers to blacklist The Gateway Pundit and other conservative websites from mainstream advertisers.
The Center of for Countering Digital Hate used this as an excuse to include The Gateway Pundit on their list of racist websites.
They included TGP because we reported on the insanity of the FBI labeling white supremacists the country’s number one threat when Black Lives Matter-Antifa just destroyed $2 billion in private property in their violent attacks on American cities.
This was not the first time the Center for Countering Digital Hate had targeted The Gateway Pundit.
Internet sleuth Bad Kitty Unleashed released an explosive report recently on how the Center for Countering Digital Hate partnered with the US taxpayer-funded Restless Development organization to counter, blacklist, censor and silence Covid “disinformation” in 2021 and beyond.
Imran Awan, the CEO at The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), bragged about getting conservative news orgs such as the Gateway Pundit, the Federalist, and Zero Hedge reported to social media AND demonetized! Especially from Google Ads, a prominent advertiser online.
As we reported earlier, according to Bad Kitty, Restless Development is funded by numerous big money leftist groups and government agencies, including:
- Obama Foundation
- USAID (United States Agency for International Development)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Clinton Health Initiative
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- United Nations
- The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
- Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation (NOREC)
- Irish Aid
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
- Ford Foundation
- Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA)
Here is their complete list of donors:
According to the CCDH and Restless Development, their reports have been produced from this collaboration and have been used by the US Congress, UK Parliament, in gov briefings and media reporting across the world, particularly influencing the deliberations surrounding the Online Safety Bill and the scope of online harms.”
The CCDH and Restless Development’s “Stop Funding Hate” campaign also included “blocklists” that contained websites and platforms they created to blacklist and defund targeted websites like The Gateway Pundit.
The Stop Funding Misinformation campaign also carries blocklists.
Here’s a sampling:
- The Gateway Pundit
- Zero Hedge
- The Federalist
- Breitbart
- Rebel News
- American Greatness (AM Greatness)
Here is the full list:
Imran Ahmed bragged during testimony in front of the UK Parliament that his group had successfully spurred Google to stop monetizing The Gateway Pundit!
Imran said this during testimony before the UK Parliament in September 2021, when he bragged about working for over a year to push Google to demonetize The Gateway Pundit.
Imran Ahmed: Another problem with the Bill is that it does not deal with the advertising market. Google has two parts to its advertising business. The first part is a display network and websites.
Google has about a third of all additional ad revenue, but 95% of the sites that you ever see that have ads on them have ads placed there by Google.
Google has chosen breadth over expense. They have an enormous display network and they gobble up sites and put them in there, including Gateway Pundit, which was spreading election misinformation—“The Big Lie”—Covid disinformation, and all sorts of malignant and anti-black narratives (what?), really horrific racist nonsense.
We found that, thanks to Google ads monetisation—Google takes advertising revenue from everywhere; I think we found Democratic Party adverts placed on Gateway Pundit, a viciously far right site, which just goes to show that, even for the advertiser, it is a terrible waste of money, and most of them are utterly frustrated when they find out about it—Google has become a primary funder of malignant, violent, racist, anti-Semitic, and Covid disinformation content on the internet.
I can give you an example of a site I first heard about through the Home Office’s counterterrorism office and which we targeted last year. It was covered in adverts for household brands.
We contacted each of those brands and got all their adverts taken off, and the site shut down after the ads disappeared. It just goes to show you that the advertising revenue from Google is vital to the proselytisation of hatred in our society.
Counterterrorism told us that they were concerned about it. Gateway Pundit raised millions of dollars of revenue from Google ads—$1.1 million in just seven months.
I am very proud to tell you that after our campaign Stop Funding Misinformation, that story was featured in Forbes magazine in the USA.
I think it was last weekend when Google took them off their display network after a year of campaigning by CCDH, and they are now demonetised, which means that they will not be able to spread their nonsense any further or at the scale and speed at which they were able to before. That is another thing that I am very proud of my team for.
There is even video of this Imran Ahmed’s testimony before the UK Parliament about how glad he was to push Google to demonetize The Gateway Pundit after a year of campaigning Google to do so.
Here is the Imran testimony—via Bad Kitty:
So now we have proof that Soros was funding a far-left British group to destroy The Gateway Pundit’s revenue base.
There must be something we can do.
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