The Global Disinformation Index (GDI) is the group who define the content on platforms according to their ideological worldview and then blacklist sites who do not align their content to support the GDI perspective. According to the Washington Examiner, Elon Musk has just partnered with them in order to enhance the advertising portfolio of Twitter and find ways to make it lose less money.
CTH has previously said to watch the economics of the Musk situation, because that will determine the outcome of the decisions. The hiring of NBC-Universal executive Linda Yaccarino was explicitly to lure the advertising side of the issue back onto the platform.
Once you are reliant on the advertising, you must then comply with the content terms of the companies who control the advertising. Joining with a group to define “disinformation” is an outcome.
WASHINGTON – Elon Musk’s X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, signed an exclusive partnership with a “misinformation” tracker linked to a government-funded group blacklisting conservative media outlets, records show.
On the heels of Musk in July describing how the social media company had negative cash flows due to a 50% drop in advertising revenue, X is teaming up with Integral Ad Science, an ad-verification company, for a “brand safety” initiative. That same ad group, which uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to rate alleged “misinformation,” is affiliated with the Global Disinformation Index, a British group with two affiliated U.S. nonprofit groups that the Washington Examiner revealed is covertly feeding blacklists of conservative websites to advertisers to defund disfavored speech.
“I am completely against GDI in any form,” Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), who sits on the House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees and has launched investigations into the British group over its alleged censorship efforts, told the Washington Examiner. “This new partnership with a group connected with GDI would only amplify the coercive and destructive powers targeting free speech.”
The partnership between X and IAS appears to undercut Musk’s touted commitment to free speech. The X owner has notably released “Twitter Files” documents to journalists, including Matt Taibbi, from Jack Dorsey’s time running the platform that show the company’s apparent coordination with the government to thwart right-leaning voices online. (read more)
I don’t want to say I told you so, but….
…”There is no such thing as “disinformation” or “misinformation”. There is only information you accept and information you do not accept. You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a brain that allows you to process the information you receive and make independent decisions.”…
Keep in mind, long before people realized the Dept of Homeland Security (FBI, DHS, CISA etc.) had a portal into Twitter, I was explaining how transparently obvious it was. {Go Deep – Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop} In part, the transparency of the problem is driven by CTH understanding of the costs associated with Twitter as a very unique platform in the sphere of social media. {Go Deep – Understand the Costs}
With the latest revelations we shared about the financial position of Twitter {Go Deep on FINANCIALS}, all of the moves now underway make sense. Musk was on track to hit a date in/around October of this year where Twitter would be insolvent. If you had read those previous “Go Deep” links, you will easily see the problem.
In 2021, Twitter generated $5.1 billion in revenue, according to the Wall Street Journal. According to the New York Times, in 2023 that revenue has dropped to around $1 billion per year.
Musk stated during public conversation that Twitter was essentially break even at $4 billion, which was the position in 2022 just prior to his taking over. [2022 costs around $4.5 billion and revenue around $4 billion +/-, per public financial statements and reporting]. Musk cut approximately $500 million in expenses from realignment and staffing reductions.
Musk has a $1.5 billion debt service on the loan he took out, per his own admission: that’s more than $100 million per month. The debt service alone is higher than his revenue. As I noted last month, Twitter is losing somewhere around $300 million per month. With $1 billion liquid in the bank, as of June (per Musk), that only gets him to September; by October, he needs another influx of cash, or else.
There is no business model, even with paying subscribers, for Twitter to exist without a major increase in revenue (Yaccarino) or a major decrease in costs. As the business grows (more users), the costs increase (more simultaneous users), and the costs to subscribers would grow. Twitter Blue subscriptions are around 180,000 users, paying $11/mo. That’s around $2 million a month- a pittance in comparison to what he needs.
On March 2, 2023, the people in control of the Joe Biden administration officially announced that government control of internet content was now officially a part of the national security apparatus. [White House Link] If you have followed the history of how the Fourth Branch of Government has been created, you will immediately recognize the intent of this new framework.
The “National Cybersecurity Strategy” aligns with, supports, and works in concert with a total U.S. surveillance system, where definitions of information are then applied to “cybersecurity” and communication vectors. This policy is both a surveillance system and an information filtration prism where the government will decide what is information, disinformation, misinformation and malinformation, then act upon it.
In part, this appears to be a response to the revelations around government influence of social media, the Twitter Files. Now we see the formalization of the intent. The government will be the arbiter of truth and cyber security, not the communication platforms or private companies. This announcement puts the government in control.
All of the control systems previously assembled under the guise of the Dept of Homeland Security now become part of the online, digital national security apparatus. I simply cannot emphasis enough how dangerous this is, and the unspoken motive behind it; however, to the latter, you are part of a small select group who are capable of understanding what was in this announcement without me spelling it out.
“Joe Rogan and Patrick Bet David Begin to Figure It Out – “There Are Trillions at Stake”…”
Hey guys….Elon is in this group too IMHO. The fact he brought Tucker in to reach a lot more minds is intriguing to me. Ditto again for Andrew Tate. Sorry guys…..the SIMPLE FACT is we NEED THEM!!
Unless you are ready to do the unthinkable……are you sure?? Don’t bullshit yourself. The unthinkable is unthinkable violence and cruelty. Donald Trump is in the same group with those mentioned above. It’s why I accept and root for him. I am praying he can help us avoid the other.
Come to terms real quick that this is where its all heading and you/me are anticipated to lay an egg. In other words, DO NOTHING!! That is exactly what “they” are counting on because we have too much to lose. “They” see us as pussies.
Smiles……..just get ready boys lol!!! There will come a day soon when we must show what we are made of. Will explain more as we move forward. We must not always play by the rules…….sometimes we must break wide open!!
Love you guys!!!
I wouldn’t be surprised to see a return to using typewriters and mimeograph machines to share information….a modern-day version Thomas Paine’s series of pamphlets, The American Crisis.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. T. Paine
Niagra: I prefer coded, hand written messages, delivered by patriots on horseback in the middle of the night.
Ten years back I read that some Russian government agencies were using manual typewriters for security .
Glad I didn’t get rid of those two manual typewriters I was thinking of donating some yrs ago, bc I was thinking the exact same thing! Recently, Tucker Carlson gave a talk at a Heritage Foundation event and mentioned ppl should keep their books bc they cannot be changed. Yep.
Somewhere I read something along the lines of “Low tech or no tech beats high tech.”
At the web site of the World Economic Forum (WEF) –
Linda Yaccarino
https://www.weforum.org/people/linda-yaccarino
Chairman, Advertising and Partnerships, NBCUniversal, oversees all market strategy and advertising revenue for the company totalling nearly $10 billion. Since joining NBCU in 2011, has transformed the advertising division, leading over 1,400 employees and setting the standard for the entire industry. Throughout career, has helped numerous organizations navigate increasingly competitive and disruptive circumstances and find innovative, sustainable, winning positions. A visionary leader, has envisioned and executed company- and industry-level transformation. On several for-profit and non-profit boards, including Ascena Retail Group, Hulu, Ad Council, Open AP, Mobile Marketing Association, ACLD and The Female Quotient. Also part of the President’s Council on Sports Fitness and Nutrition.
The WEF is the root of all evil, governments just follow their
orders“suggestions”last meeting FBI director invited/attended, PDJT was dis-invited, Elon Musk was also uninvited
Elon isn’t the genius he’s marketed himself to be. He’s an agency construct…
Agency construct huh? Lemme guess: flat earth?
Hey! Don’t be so harsh, I recently read that the Flat Earth Society had members all over the globe. 🤪
my remembrance was obama giving him billions in tax payer money. am i misremembering.
Is Musk going from hero to zero?
Gone.
Only if you’re into black and white thinking
lost me shorty after he bought twitter. Because He was my hope and he failed to deliver.
You’re right again 🤔
Meanwhile Sundance, who can supply all back stories that explain the current time and the sinister intended path, is being blasted all over aggregate news with links and references galore.
It was inevitable. He’s on the hook for too much money to too many people who would demand it… or else. Of course, that assumes it hadn’t been his intention from the outset. He’s been too close to to much for too long to ever break away. Now he’s made it clear, for anyone who still held out hope.
That’s the look my dog gives our cat on a regular basis..
A British company working with Twatter to squash free speech while the guardians of our constitution are ?
Accepting bribes if you read the previous story today.
It just seems so hopeless, everywhere, with everything!
(Except here 🙂
And with a totally useless GOP, I see no end to it.
J6 deleting evidence, monstrous judges with Jack Smith going berserk and a new set of law pertaining ONLY to President Trump, and I see no end!
You told us all about Musk and you were right at every gate and I’m as frustrated as I’ve ever been!
I remember when he shouted down being MAGA like it was some kind of disease, so I was NEVER convinced of his sincerity, but I NEVER thought that the legal system would collapse so quickly over just one man!
It just seems so hopeless…yet President Trump continues to fight like a lion!
Too bad that the GOP is so damn worthless and so filled with backstabbing scumbags!
Live like a 20 year old and all this goes away. This ain’t the end of the world, but every generation thinks it is when they get old enough to have time to think. Just stop thinking – you weren’t gonna save the world anyway.
Frank, I think we all feel that way some times. It’s painful to see where we are headed as a country/world. But as Sundance preaches…
“Live your best life!”
A couple of scriptures came to mind after reading your comments.
Luke:21:28 (Christ is describing the end times to His disciples.)
“When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.
Notice “stand up” we are called to remain strong and ready!
Deuteronomy 31:6
”Be Strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; He will never leave you or forsake you.”
There are many more wonderful scriptures to encourage us all. God Can and Will save us. Put your trust in Him.
Amen, Lord Jesus come!
How is it these organizations are investigated and charged with racketeering? Oh, wait that would mean the FBI would have to do their job.
The FBI needs to be charged with racketeering.
The fbLie is part of the problem.
Perhaps now we can give up on the idea of benevolent billionaires. I remember when Warren Buffett was considered such 😒
I cannot stand anyone using that middle name for our Lord.
Only “positive” is it revealed much about the f*cking source.
Amen
I hate it too.
“Not saying he hasn’t let us down; he did.”
He didn’t let me down.
My estimation of President. Donald John Trump has only grown.
After every sling and arrow he was subjected to, he is still standing, and still fighting. How can any person with a heart not love such a warrior?
We are seeing “supply and demand” as it applies to TRUTH, and with Truth, the resulting CREDIBILITY.
By THEIR distortions of the truth, their promulgation and promotion of false narratives one after another in rapid succession, they not only destroyed the credibilty of the Institutions, they greatly decreased the supply of Truth, thereby increasing its value.
As with any commodity, the less there is, the greater its value, so while truth has always been valuable, prescious even it is our AWARENESS of its rarity, and therefore appreciation of its value, that has changed, really.
A man laying on a floater in a swimming pool, sipping a cold glass of water, doesn’t have the same view of that glass of water as a man dieing of thirst in the desert has, and yet the glass of water hasn’t changed.
Because of our changed perception and value, therefore desire for TRUTH, the “Market” and so “Marketability”OF Truth, has increased.
There has always been such a market, but with the perception of fewer sources, increased demand means increased opportunities to get “into the market” by being a “producer” or source of Truth.
Rush and Sundance, perhaps instinctively, ‘capitalised’ on this ‘market’ for many years, and such a market can be viewed both in terms of $, and in terms of AUDIENCE.
As we have seen, Rush spawned many pretenders, but there was only one Rush, actually the great lou dobbs also is in this category of early suppliers of Truth.
Now, with the increased market, created by the MSM, etc. loss of credibility and hence perception as a sourcs of truth, a # of people are percieving the market and attempting to enter it.
Musk, Tucker, Rogan, Brand, are all acting as producers of CONTENT, packaging and marketing TRUTH.
This IAD, is just like Larry Finks HRC, using access to Capital to try to force Corporations like AB to “go woke”, pushing DEI only with IAD they are using advertising $, whereas HRC/Fink are using access to Capital.
The effect will be the same for “X” as for AB, destroying the brand. Can not survive in the market of Truth, while censoring Truth, its incompatable.
Interesting thesis, thank you, Dutchman.
“What is truth?” as one old Roman once said.
It’s two separate issues, which could be abused by the regime, but alone don’t support your conclusion. Advertisers will get to choose what content their ads are displayed next to; they won’t get to decide what content gets taken down. Big difference. However, in order to implement that system, they necessarily need to “rate” content. Those ratings will be fed into the regime’s Security State enforcers for action by other means.
Increasing the number of (verified) active users (Musk is incentivizing people to reply to Tweets) increases the number of ads shown, and Twitter’s income. To encourage good original content, Musk is sharing ad-revenue with creators. It’s just another example of Musk (like Trump) thinking in ways his detractors don’t.
Of course we should watch the economics because they will determine what path he will take. He didn’t become the richest man on the planet being altruistic all the time.
No. He did it by sucking the government tit for subsidies and no bid contracts.
However, unlike a couple of other ventures NASA seeded, Musk made good on SpaceX in spades. Bezo’s attempt and a third company similarly seeded are still mostly grounded.
Have you seen the comments that the Twitter experience is getting to be a drag with all the advertising? I find those to be humorous and wonder if they are written to call attention by those who know or simply the whining of the clueless being led blindly to the purge. I think at some point “X” needs to purge all “non-real” persons in the name of “truth and reality” meaning getting rid of all anonymity on the platform. That will fit with the addition of financial services on “X” allowing it to make some serious money.
Tesla was built with taxpayer money, perhaps he is giving back by exposing these connections?
Try again after you either sober up or come back down.how repulsive.
”There is no such thing as “disinformation” or “misinformation”. There is only information you accept and information you do not accept. You were not born with a requirement to believe everything you are told; rather, you were born with a brain that allows you to process the information you receive and make independent decisions.”
I disagree.
There is information, hearsay, gossip, slander, lies, false witness and a mixture of these. There is also truth.
Three people can see a car accident happening and there are differences in their reports because they saw it from a different angle but all testify that the accident happened. They may be quite accurate in their description but even if they are decent and honest people they all have to contend with a common human problem – our memory. We can include or exclude things inadvertently. This is why a just court will require two or three witness and carefully cross examine them to determine what happened and see if this accords with other evidence. The problem with what is labeled as misinformation is that it is not allowed to be cross examined. That is why an open discussion with no censoring should be allowed. Disingenuous attacks on the truth by people who hide their agenda and ideology should be exposed.
What Musk is doing appears to undermine his stated intentions.
Elon Musk is and always has been, a liar and a fraud.
He is now a premier enabler of government control over the sharing of information.
I hope the arrogant prick loses so much money he can’t buy bubble gum and has to live in one of his crappy overpriced teslas.
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The above link shows Elon Musk in costume. He is telling you who he is and who he serves. The breast plate insignia is Baphomet.
It is an ancient occult deity. Same deity Bruce Jenner became Caitlyn to mimic.
Elon Musk is a liar and a fraud.
Elon Musk is the world’s richest man because he is a government welfare queen.
Elon Musk has mad billions off the backs of American Taxpayers from the left’s holy grail of climate change, green energy and EV’s – all Hoaxes. All cherished by the left.
Elon Musk voted for Joe Biden and Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
Elon Musk is in bed making love with Xi/CCP – the same Xi/CCP as Joe and Hunter Biden.
Elon Musk has never invented anything.
It sounds really bad when you put it like that…………
Truth hurts…
The control freaks in the gov’t have lusted for control of the Internet ever since was made available to us. Now they have it, and they’ve ruined it.
I like that. I may have to borrow it.
The only reason Jack made money running Twitter was because the alphabet groups were giving him billions of our tax money to control the masses.
Finally “truth” from the wilderness! Spot-on! I was amazed when Musk bought out Twitter after Sundance explained how the “Magic Coffee Bean Shop” worked and how dependent on “Government” TAX PAYER money they were.
I was not amazed. Musk has been doing NASA’s bidding for decades. NASA is part of the government.
To paraphrase Gandalf, “[Twitter] is altogether evil.”
In many ways, the fixation of people on thinking an evil thing can be co-opted or reformed infects our minds and corrupts our actions.
We have the same problem with other provably evil things in our society: the Republican Party, Government schools, and cable television.
We know these are all very, very, wrong. Yet we keep participating.
I disagree. Twitter in and of itself is not anymore evil than phones or letters or video chats. After all, at its core, it’s a way to communicate with others. What makes it dangerous–or “evil”–is misuse by greedy control-freaks!
Parents should quit sending their children to government schools. First and foremost, they are placing their children in harms way because the schools are full of groomers. Second, they are placing their children in harms way of the gender bending psychological trauma at an age where the child can not muster a defense. This can result in loss of their child or the horrendous disfigurement of their child against the parent’s wishes. Third, the schools no longer educate, they only indoctrinate.
I had a public school education, but it was not an average public school and it was in the 50s and 60s, with HS in the 1970s. It was a different school system back then. Groomers were not celebrated. Homosexuals of both types were still in the closet.
Linda Yaccarino is on CNBC doing an interview in a couple minutes.
another mid 30s suburban nazi princess.
yuck
she said X was “almost break even”.
Social medial platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube are for users who need to be protected from people just like themselves.
If Musk has forced government censorship out in the open as appears to be the case, perhaps it is time for the citizenry to involve the courts with lawsuits claiming violations of First Amendment rights. According to what Sundance has shown us the government just announced it will control the flow of information in the United States. How does that not violate the First Amendment? All U.S. citizens would have standing in these cases I would think.
If the Supremes allowed a citizen standing, then, yes indeed you’d be correct. If the DOJ acknowledged that citizens had the right to Freedom of religion while attacking traditional Catholics, then, yes, you’d be correct. I am not Catholic, but the FBI is attacking evangelicals as well. So, what rights do citizens still have? Biden is actively attacking the 2nd amendment as well.
The country is in jeopardy. It is not yet lost, but the battle is raging before all of us.
Well, I guess there is a limit to the altruism of Elon Musk. I thought at some point this would happen because Musk can’t stop the financial bleeding of his “X” company, no matter what he does. All of the social media sites you can access from your little phones in your pockets are destroying any remaining person to person social contact worldwide. I have always been opposed to these forms of communication as being inferior even to the handwritten letter.
Human Beings are beings in this world and instinctivel know when they are in the presence of other beings who also instinctively recognize them. And that includes all of the animals and most of the plants that live in this world. We need real contact with other beings in order to see our own place in the world. With artificial communication devices, we are given no physical clues as to whether we are communicating with other beings or not, and the results are becoming increasingly clear that we are an animal that has to have physical contact with our world in order to understand the role we are meant to play. Prefacing my name with a pronoun I want to see in a text message, is a clear indication that we are becoming unmoored to our natural surroundings, is just one example. Unfortunately, there is no way out of the AI debacle as it has already infected us with the unnatural world. I think the Amish may have been on to something. No?
We have people on this site who presume to know more about each other than they would just by seeing each other. Maybe that does not help us to unravel what is going on in our Government.
Twitter or X should be treated as Bud Light, and let them feel the hurt.
These are times that set a man for success or failure in the grand stage. Business as usually is out the window and one must decide what hill to die on. Musk has chosen his. Unfortunately, Musk is like most humans. Scared and cannot see himself anywhere else other than the life he’s living. Men with steel backbones have lost everything with no regrets as to what they were fighting for. These are times where men like that are far few between…
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Forget freedom of speech and censorship, if you boil it all down, Musk is all about the Benjamins!
Of important note, Musk was already at the helm of Twitter when they conceded to the secret subpoena of Trump’s entire historical account, including DM’s.
Globalization seeks the destruction of the nation state. If you want disinformation, Global warming is caused by USA, migration is good, human population is bad, fertilizer is bad, Biden is legitimate.
Anyone who’d borrow upwards of $15B to buy a sack of soshul media shyt like Twitter, does not strike me as a skilled strategic thinking businessman. That is, UNLESS Mr. Musk has in pocket several valuable contracts with DARPA et al to assist in accelerating the purge of western wypipo.
Twitter or X? How ’bout TWIX?
Musk has an X fixation, he had a girlfriend with a strange name and their child was given an even more cryptic name.