Targeting Tracker

What this is

A chronological, source-linked record of published material that negatively characterizes Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo, or the “Disinformation Dozen” list on which Sayer Ji was placed in March 2021. It exists because the claims were public, consequential, and in several cases led to removal from platforms — while the documents behind them are scattered and often hard to retrieve.

Two views, one dataset

• Published record (default) — every item is independently verified and carries a working link to its primary document. If you cannot click through to the source, it is not here.
• Researcher view — adds items that are not independently verified, or whose supporting evidence sits in private files. These are flagged on every row. They are shown for completeness and are not part of the public claim.

Naming: a distinction that matters

Most documents in this record do not discuss Sayer Ji at all. They cite the “Disinformation Dozen” as a list. We separate these explicitly, because conflating them would overstate the record:

• names directly — the document names Sayer Ji or GreenMedInfo.
• Dozen list — the document repeats the list or its finding without naming him.

Funding: four separate tracks, one headline

Funding is the easiest thing to get wrong, so it is deliberately partitioned. Only the first track is ever totalled.

• Direct to CCDH — money that demonstrably reached the organization that authored the Disinformation Dozen, each row evidenced by a tax filing, a grant database record, or a published funder statement. Totals are given per currency and never converted or combined, because exchange rates across a decade would manufacture false precision.
• Upstream & pass-through — aggregate grant totals to donor-advised-fund sponsors and intermediaries through which CCDH later received money. These are shown individually and never summed: the portion that actually reached the naming work is not public, and presenting the aggregate as targeting money would be false.
• Institutional context — money to universities, agencies and the misinformation field generally, including funding acknowledged in the metadata of academic papers. Context for how the field is financed. Not evidence of coordination, and not summed.
• Checked & not substantiated — claims investigated and either refuted or unlocatable, published deliberately. A tracker that only shows hits is advocacy; one that shows its misses is a record.

Severity

A 1–5 editorial rating of how damaging a characterization is, from repeating the list label (1) to extremist association or attribution of deaths (5). It is a reading aid, not a legal conclusion. Nothing in this tracker alleges a crime by any person or organization.

Personnel

The published record names only individuals whose role is documented in a primary filing — a companies register, a tax return, or an official biography — and every role links to that filing. Individuals whose identity or role we could only partly confirm, or that rest on a single uncorroborated lead, are withheld from the published record entirely. “Bridges” are people holding roles in two or more organizations, which surfaces ties no single entity’s filings reveal.

Corrections

Errors will exist in a dataset this size. If a row is wrong, incomplete, or has been superseded, we want to fix it — send the row, the problem, and the document. Corrections are applied to the dataset and the build date updates. A funder or organization that believes a characterization of its role is inaccurate can request review on the same terms.

Reuse

Both views export to CSV from the sidebar. The record is intended to be checkable, quotable and reusable with attribution.