Web sleuth Bad Kitty Unleashed launched an explosive report this week on how the Center for Countering Digital Hate partnered with the US taxpayer-funded Restless Development group to counter, blacklist, censor and silence Covid “disinformation” in 2021 and past.
Learn Unhealthy Kitty’s whole report starting here.
Breaking! The Heart For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) partnered with Stressed Growth (youth collective) to counter Covid Disinformation. And one of the best half? Stressed Growth is funded by the US authorities alongside the Obama Basis, Gates, Clinton’s, and different… pic.twitter.com/GwYYFoRkru
— Unhealthy Kitty Unleashed (@pepesgrandma) January 19, 2025
Imran Awan, the CEO at The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), bragged about getting conservative information orgs such because the Gateway Pundit, the Federalist, and Zero Hedge reported to social media AND demonetized! Particularly from Google Advertisements, a distinguished advertiser on-line.
In accordance with Unhealthy Kitty Stressed Growth is funded by quite a few huge cash leftist teams and authorities companies, together with:
- Obama Basis
- USAID (United States Company for Worldwide Growth)
- U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies
- Clinton Well being Initiative
- Invoice & Melinda Gates Basis
- United Nations
- The Swedish Worldwide Growth Cooperation Company (SIDA)
- Norwegian Company for Alternate Cooperation (NOREC)
- Irish Support
- International, Commonwealth & Growth Workplace (FCDO)
- Ford Basis
- Danish Worldwide Growth Company (DANIDA)
Right here is their full listing of donors:
In accordance with the CCDH and Stressed Growth, their experiences have been produced from this collaboration have been utilized in US Congress, UK Parliament, in gov briefings and media reporting the world over, significantly influencing the deliberations surrounding the On-line Security Invoice and the scope of on-line harms.”
The CCDH and Stressed Growth “Cease Funding Hate” marketing campaign additionally included “blocklists” that contained web sites and platforms they created to blacklist and defund focused web sites like The Gateway Pundit.
The Cease Funding Misinformation marketing campaign additionally carries blocklists.
Right here’s a sampling:
- The Gateway Pundit
- Zero Hedge
- The Federalist
- Breitbart
- Insurgent Information
- American Greatness (AM Greatness)
Right here is the total listing:
The Cease Funding Misinformation collaborative are very proud of their work to destroy sure COVID “misinformation offenders.”
In actual fact, Imran Ahmed bragged throughout testimony in entrance of the UK Parliament that his group had efficiently spurred Google to cease monetizing The Gateway Pundit!
Imran mentioned this throughout testimony in entrance of the UK Parliament in September 2021 the place he bragged about efficiently pushing Google to demonetize The Gateway Pundit.
Imran Ahmed: One other drawback with the Invoice is that it doesn’t take care of the promoting market. Google has two components to its promoting enterprise. The primary half is a show community and web sites.
Google has a couple of third of all extra advert income, however 95% of the websites that you simply ever see which have adverts on them have adverts positioned there by Google.
Google has chosen breadth over expense. They’ve an unlimited show community and so they gobble up websites and put them in there, together with Gateway Pundit, which was spreading election misinformation—“The Large Lie”—Covid disinformation, and all kinds of malignant and anti-black narratives (what?), actually horrific racist nonsense.
We discovered that, because of Google adverts monetisation—Google takes promoting income from in all places; I feel we discovered Democratic Occasion adverts positioned on Gateway Pundit, a viciously far proper web site, which simply goes to indicate that, even for the advertiser, it’s a horrible waste of cash, and most of them are totally annoyed once they discover out about it—Google has turn out to be a major funder of malignant, violent, racist, anti-Semitic, and Covid disinformation content material on the web.
I can provide you an instance of a web site I first heard about via the House Workplace’s counterterrorism workplace and which we focused final 12 months. It was lined in adverts for family manufacturers.
We contacted every of these manufacturers and acquired all their adverts taken off, and the positioning shut down after the adverts disappeared. It simply goes to indicate you that the promoting income from Google is significant to the proselytisation of hatred in our society.
Counterterrorism informed us that they have been involved about it. Gateway Pundit raised tens of millions of {dollars} of income from Google adverts—$1.1 million in simply seven months.
I’m very proud to let you know that after our marketing campaign Cease Funding Misinformation, that story was featured in Forbes journal within the USA.
I feel it was final weekend when Google took them off their show community after a 12 months of campaigning by CCDH, and they’re now demonetised, which signifies that they won’t be able to unfold their nonsense any additional or on the scale and pace at which they have been in a position to earlier than. That’s one other factor that I’m very pleased with my crew for.
There may be even video of this Imran Ahmed’s testimony earlier than the UK Parliament about how glad he was to push Google to demonetize The Gateway Pundit after a 12 months of campaigning Google to take action.
Right here is the Imran testimony—through Unhealthy Kitty:
The Cease Funding Misinformation web site additionally included The Gateway Pundit in their “blocklist” of racist propaganda as a result of we didn’t assist the George Floyd motion.
The Cease Funding Misinforamtion Marketing campaign bragged about demonetizing The Gateway Pundit after a year-long marketing campaign.
From their website:
“Because of the work of the Cease Funding Misinformation marketing campaign in highlighting Google’s inaction and persuading organisations like UNICEF to tug their promoting, promoting on the Gateway Pundit has since decreased, forcing it to hunt different methods to revenue from misinformation. The location lately added a subscription choice, admitting that they face “a battle for survival” as campaigning had “restricted the promoting that pays our payments”.”
They freely bragged about taking down Google adverts off of The Gateway Pundit — primarily based on their revealed lies.
In 2022 the US State Division announced that USAID was working with Stressed Growth. This doubtless included funding.
Unhealthy Kitty has found how US taxpayer {dollars} have been used to fund overseas teams to demonetize and destroy conservative content material and conservative web sites.
This reveals a direct hyperlink between the US Authorities and their finanicial assist of the worldwide censorship media advanced.
