This is part of a Washington Examiner series on self-styled “disinformation” tracking groups that are blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media. 
Here
 is where you can read other 
stories
 in the series.

A
State Department-backed
“disinformation” tracking group
blacklisting conservative news outlets
pressured advertising companies to punish websites boosting the
COVID-19
“lab leak” theory, which a federal agency now says is the most likely origin of the virus. 

The Global Disinformation Index, a British group with two affiliated U.S. nonprofit organizations,
has continued to come under fire
for feeding conservative news blacklists to advertising companies. This same government-funded entity repeatedly applied pressure on companies to cut ties with websites promoting the once alleged right-wing “conspiracy” that
COVID-19
emerged from a lab — which the Energy Department recently concluded is probable based on intelligence.

DISINFORMATION INC: JAMES COMER DEMANDS RECORDS ON STATE DEPARTMENT FUNDING GROUP BLACKLISTING CONSERVATIVES

“GDI is part of [a] disturbing constellation of pop-up censorship organizations that all descended on stifling COVID origins discourse online simultaneously,” Mike Benz, a former State Department official and director of Foundation F …