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"By broadcasting the Senator’s words to a national audience, this debunked conspiracy theory is given authority, validation and amplification," said GDI in the report.titled,"Why is Ad Tech Funding These Ads on Coronavirus Conspiracy Sites?"
The report, which slammed Google and other companies for"providing ad revenue streams to known disinformation sites peddling coronavirus conspiracies," called out the conservative blogtitled"The Wuhan Virus Escaped From a Chinese Lab." GDI also took aim at a company selling N-95 masks for advertising in the article.
"GDI’s own content on the lab leak perfectly fits its own definition of 'disinformation,'" Justin Goodman, senior vice president for advocacy and public policy at White Coat Waste Project, a federal spending watchdog, told the."A growing majority of taxpayers, scientists around the world, lawmakers, and even the Biden Administration’s FBI and Energy Department agree that dangerous animal experiments at the NIH-funded Wuhan lab caused COVID.
"Yet, in early 2020, before a pandemic was even declared and any investigation had taken place, GDI was apparently using U.S. taxpayers's money to gaslight the public by labeling the lab leak a 'conspiracy theory' and seeking to censor and demonetize media outlets reporting on it," he added.
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