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14-467: GDI was founded in 2018 by Clare Melford , Alexandra Mousavizadeh and Daniel Rogers, and has received funding through a combination of charitable trusts, governmental organizations, and ad tech licensees of its dynamic exclusion list. Contributors include the Knight Foundation , Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), and Luminate Group . One of its strategies promoted by GDI

28-642: A "healthy whack out of the economy". CRA's work forecasting the impact on employment of the 2003 Climate Stewardship Act was criticized by the Natural Resources Defense Council in 2005 for using unrealistic economic assumptions and producing directionally incorrect estimates. According to a 2021 study, flawed economic forecasting reports written by four economists at Charles River Associates between 1991 and 2009, and paid for by fossil fuel interests, overestimated predicted costs and ignored potential policy benefits. The study argues that

42-543: A lawsuit by The Daily Wire and The Federalist , two U.S. right-wing websites, against the State Department. The State Department-funded National Endowment for Democracy announced in 2023 that it would no longer fund GDI. After the series of stories, Microsoft 's Xandr cut ties with GDI and exited the political advertising space. Congress passed a law in 2023 that banned the Pentagon from funding GDI in

56-579: A leadership role in the transition of the European Council on Foreign Relations to independent status from previously being a part of George Soros ' Open Society Foundations . She has been CEO of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a not-for-profit organisation which provides disinformation risk ratings, but in 2020 the subject was listed as secretary with no compensation in federal tax filings. She explained in

70-618: A talk delivered to the Royal Society of Arts that it was while she was general manager of the Nordic region of MTV that she developed a critical understanding of how the media station provided a supportive selling environment for unsustainable lifestyles, which led to her giving up that position and becoming interested in Buddhism . CRA International CRA International, Inc. ( doing business as Charles River Associates )

84-589: Is a global consulting firm headquartered in Boston . The firm provides expert testimony and litigation support, strategic advice, and analysis to law firms, corporations, accounting firms, and governments. Their practices include: antitrust & competition economics, auctions & competitive bidding, energy, finance, financial economics , forensic services, intellectual property , labor & employment, life sciences, management consulting (Marakon), risk investigations & analytics, and transfer pricing . CRA

98-410: Is the aim to remove financial incentives for news content that promotes "adversarial narratives". GDI's investigation of COVID-19 disinformation focused on the generation of illicit revenue for websites. GDI has reported that a recent evaluation of Italian online news sites resulted in categorising one third of the evaluated sites as high risk of disinformation. GDI's alleged bias was first reported by

112-544: The Washington Examiner , a U.S. conservative website, which released an investigative series in February 2023 that said GDI was "part of a stealth operation blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media, likely costing the news companies large sums in advertising dollars". The journalist who authored that series of stories, Gabe Kaminsky, pointed out that all 10 outlets that GDI in a report identified as

126-672: The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and the 1997 Kyoto summit (that led to the Kyoto Protocol ), the fossil fuel industry used reports authored by CRA and funded by the fossil fuel industry to argue that US compliance with climate policy would be economically disastrous. CRA called the Clinton administration 's projections for costs of compliance with the Kyoto Protocol wildly optimistic, and argued that compliance would take

140-484: The "riskiest" and "worst" all leaned to the political right while all but one of the 10 ranked "least risky" leaned to the political left. Kaminsky said that GDI received $ 100,000 from the U.S. Department of State . However, the State Department has denied that the grant was used to "blacklist" any companies in the U.S. The series in the Washington Examiner sparked outcry among conservatives, and prompted

154-660: The GDI website as she had not been in contact with GDI since 2019. Clare Melford Clare Melford was the CEO of the International Business Leaders Forum from November 2010 until she stepped down in November 2012 . She graduated from Oxford University and trained as a management consultant at Marakon Associates . She worked as general manager for MTV Nordic for eight years. She took

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168-1098: The future for military recruitment advertising. In April 2024, UnHerd CEO Freddie Sayers criticized GDI after it placed UnHerd on its "dynamic exclusion list", leading to a reduction in UnHerd's advertising revenue . Sayers argued that GDI's determination was based on ideological disagreements rather than factual inaccuracies. In response, Elon Musk , the CEO of Twitter , called for GDI to be shut down. Following UnHerd's article, UK Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch joined around 10 MPs in raising concerns about GDI and their approach to distinguishing between free speech and disinformation. In response to Badenoch's concerns, Foreign Secretary David Cameron stated that FCDO had ceased funding GDI in 2023 and did not plan to resume funding. Until March 2023, GDI publicly disclosed members of its "Advisory Panel". Amongst others, these have included Anne Applebaum , Peter Pomerantsev , Miguel Martinez and Hany Farid . Reason reported in February 2023 that Applebaum had asked for her name to removed from

182-621: The mid-1980s based on the academic work of Dr. Bill Alberts. This management principle, also known as managing for value (MFV), states that management should first and foremost consider the interests of shareholders when making management decisions. Under this principle, senior executives should set performance targets in terms of delivering shareholder returns (stock price and dividends payments) and managing to achieve them. In 2017, CRA acquired life sciences strategy firm C1 Consulting. In 2022, CRA acquired life sciences firm bioStrategies Group and labor-focused firm Welch Consulting. Prior to

196-561: Was founded in 1965 by Jerry Kraft, John Kaler, and Alan Willens. The company went public through an initial public offering in April 1998. In 2005, CRA acquired economic consultancy firm Lexecon to expand its practice into Europe and the United Kingdom . Marakon, which CRA acquired in 2009, forms part of their management consulting practice. Marakon Associates was founded in 1978 and pioneered value-based management (VBM) in

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