quote Originally posted by williegoat: Rayb has no idea what he just posted. The "risky list" is at the heart of a lawsuit against the U.S. Government, specifically the state department. The U.S. Government is funding propaganda the same way they are spying on U.S. citizens. They get by with a little help from our friends. I will let you do your own research.

Ray could have gleaned that image from this:

"Brief: Disinformation Risk in the United States Online Media Market, October 2022"
"GDI" Global Disinformation Risk; October 21, 2022.
https://www.disinformationi...market-october-2022/

This is the Summary, and the summary explanation of that image, according to the report's authors:

quote GDI’s research looked at 69 U.S. news sites, selected on the basis of online traffic and social media followers, as well as geographical coverage and racial, ethnic and religious community representation. The index scores sites across 16 indicators – indicators which themselves contain many, many more individual data points – and generates a score for the degree to which a site is at risk of disinforming its readers. The data from the study corroborates today’s general impression that hyperbolic, emotional, and alarmist language is a feature of the U.S. news media landscape. Every site displayed some degree of cherry-picking facts, omitting relevant information, making unsubstantiated claims, and/or using logical fallacies. Many of the sites that regularly posted this kind of misleading, biased content also used sensational language to elicit an emotional response from the reader. Fewer sites had widespread use of what GDI terms “targeting language,” which demeans or belittles people or organizations, rather than simply presenting the news. However, some of these sites specifically cover politics. The data showed that these adversarial narratives appear on both sides of the aisle with similar prevalence. Thirty-eight percent of articles directly targeted Democrats. And another 38 percent of articles targeted Republicans. Taken together, bias, sensationalism and targeting distract, divide and, as a result, disinform. Here are the ten sites that showed the least and greatest level of disinformation risk. Read on to find out how GDI determined this, what the data shows about the news media market overall, and what you can learn more about in our forthcoming report.

The image again, to refresh everyone's memory, whether their memory needs refreshing or not:

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