Government-Funded ‘Disinformation’ Watchdog Blocking Media Ad Sales, Claims Journalist

Published on April 19, 2024

The editor of a UK media website told a parliamentary hearing the company was deprived of advertising revenue because a government-funded private company labelled its writers’ opinion pieces as “disinformation.” Freddie Sayers, the editor of UnHerd, appeared before a House of Lords select committee on the future of news on April 16 at which the subject of “disinformation” was discussed. Mr. Sayers, who founded the YouGov polling agency before joining UnHerd, said that last year, the publication decided to put adverts on its website and went to three successive ad agencies, but only got a small fraction of the advertisers they expected, given their readership....

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