The Global Disinformation Index (rated as Left bias) recently published its 2022 'Disinformation Risk Assessment.” The report isn't transparent about the biases of individual reviewers, and evaluates bias and quality together in a confusing fashion.
The first seven on this list are rated as “High” risk. The final three are rated as “Maximum” risk.
“Intentionally misleading” is usually disinformation’s dead giveaway, but this definition goes much further. By the AllSides definition, everything else mentioned would be classified instead as. When a news source publishes content that advances an “financially or ideologically motivated adversarial narrative,” that’s biased content – not necessarily “disinformation.”
GDI collected data for the study in two “pillars”: the Content Pillar, which is “based on a sample of content published on the site including news and opinion articles,” and the Operations Pillar, “which reflects the operational policies, practices and past behaviour of the media outlet.” GDI’s definition of disinformation covers a lot of ground, and expands significantly on the common definition,
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