Global Disinformation Index

Disinformation Index Ltd (UK) → operates the public website and acts as controller → Global Disinformation Index

Current policy updated20April2026; corporate-role start and end unknown.

Privacy section1 and footer identify Disinformation Index Ltd11297397 as operator/controller. This supports the UK legal identity for that role, not parent ownership of the German company or all grant contracts.

Oak Foundation → reported a three-year 2023 grant → Global Disinformation Index

Listed in2023 report; approval day and term dates unknown.

Reported by the cited source

Oak2023 lists USD903614 over three years for core capacity to expand technological solutions addressing online disinformation. It is not verified annual spending or cash received; no earmark to a later complaint, letter or named classifier decision is established.

Financial details: value: 903,614; currency: USD; kind: reported three-year grant; period: three years; exact dates unknown

Payment status: unverified

Which legal entity: Report does not identify exact contracting Oak group entity or recipient registration identifier.

Global Disinformation Index → supplied ratings described in the Oracle product guide → Oracle GDI segment gi_gdi_pfi

Copyright2024 guide; precise publication/launch date unknown. Metadata May30/June3 is not substituted.

Reported by the cited source

Oracle2024 guide says GDI machine learning and expert human review provide high-risk news-website ratings packaged as gi_gdi_pfi. No executed licence, individual activation or GDI-specific default is shown.

Global Disinformation Index → reported charging for risk data licensed to buyers → Advertising licensees and buyers

2024-04-29 – 2024-04-29

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GDI FON0071 describes commercial data licensing and charges, while licensees retain purchasing/data-use control. No amount, purchaser contract or actual transfer was acquired; current no-media/platform-funding self-description is not reconciled by this historical account.

Global Disinformation Index → described review and changeable ratings → GDI publisher rating review: 2024 description

Reported by the cited source

GDI describes reassessment and ratings changing as content changes. No independent appeal tier, successful appeal, deletion/update protocol or obligation for a licensee to resume advertising is supplied.

Global Disinformation Index → was identified as a limited historical input → IAS Context Control Avoidance

Use preceded announced discontinuation; precise interval unknown.

Reported by the cited source

IAS announcement acknowledges past limited GDI input in Context Control Avoidance. Exact fields, start date, customer settings and intermediary contract are not disclosed.

Global Disinformation Index → describes a forthcoming revenue-estimation dashboard → Online Harms Monetisation Dashboard: stated plan

Reported by the cited source

Current About page says the dashboard will estimate open-web/social revenues. No live product or identity with DEL, Oracle segment or AI4TRUST is established.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office → reported providing funding between 2019 and 2022 → Global Disinformation Index

Report date24February2023; between2019 and2022 exact period boundaries unspecified.

Reported by the cited source

Ministerial answer149420 reports GBP1999026 provided between2019 and2022 for activities outside the US. Donor-reported aggregate, not a reconciled ledger or contractual restriction on every later use of knowledge/data.

Financial details: value: 1,999,026; currency: GBP; kind: donor-reported provided funding; period: between2019 and2022; exact boundaries unknown

Payment status: donor-reported provision; individual payments unreconciled

Which legal entity: Answer uses GDI name without recipient company identifier.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office → reported further funding in the then-current financial year → Global Disinformation Index

Then-current financial year asof24February2023; exact payment dates not supplied.

Reported by the cited source

Same answer reports a further GBP600797 in current financial year2022-2023. Do not add the separately displayed September2022 invoice row as an independent extra transfer.

Financial details: value: 600,797; currency: GBP; kind: donor-reported further funding; period: FY2022-2023 context

Payment status: donor-reported provision; recipient receipt not independently reconciled

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office → records a supplier invoice line with a 5 September 2022 GL date → Global Disinformation Index

GL accounting date only; preview updated28November2024. Not last-payment proof.

Selected September2022 row records GBP130506, GL date5September2022, identifier300,000,130,671,861 line1, supplier GLOBAL DISINFORMATION INDEX, Project Management category. GL date is not verified bank settlement, identifier not grant number, and row not allocated to either parliamentary total.

Financial details: value: 130,506; currency: GBP; kind: published ledger/invoice-line amount; period: September2022 ledger; GL date5September

Payment status: bank settlement unverified

Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme → was identified as supporting outside-US activities → Global Disinformation Index

Reported by the cited source

Donor answer ties GDI support to CDMD and outside-US activities. Generic programme region/strategy cannot locate the GDI component or prove FCDO commissioned later US advertising exclusions.

Counter Disinformation and Media Development Programme → was described as having an expected reporting and review relationship → Global Disinformation Index

2023-02-24 – 2023-02-24

Reported by the cited source

Answer says there will have been frequent contact and regular performance reports/reviews. No actual count, reports, instructions or rating-level approval rights were acquired.