Misinformation
Conduct Screen Harmful Products
Systematic spread of false information, propaganda, or content designed to mislead or manipulate public understanding
19 companies currently excluded under this screen
Excluded Companies (19 total)
Showing 19 of 19 companies excluded under this screen.
| Ticker | Company | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| CPAY | CORPAY INC | The FTC's 2023 stipulated order found that Corpay (then Fleetcor) systematically misrepresented its fuel card products to small business customers, advertising "no hidden fees" and guaranteed fuel sav... |
| DDC | DDC ENTERPRISE LTD | DDC aggressively markets itself as a "plant-based" and "healthy lifestyle" brand to Gen Z/Millennial consumers. However, its portfolio includes brands like MengWei and Yujia Weng producing traditional... |
| DJT | TRUMP MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORP | Trump Media & Technology Group Corp is the parent company of Truth Social, a social media platform founded and chaired by former President Donald Trump. The platform’s core purpose and its primary use... |
| FOX | Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. | Fox Corporation agreed to pay $787.5 million (April 2023) to settle Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit over Fox News broadcasts of false claims about 2020 election fraud; hosts and executives... |
| FOXA | Fox class A | Fox Corporation (Class A shares) settled with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million in April 2023 — the largest known media defamation settlement in U.S. history — after Fox News broadcast false ... |
| GIS | General Mills, Inc. | General Mills has been excluded for its systematic role in spreading misinformation regarding the nutritional and health impacts of its products. The company has a documented history of funding and di... |
| IMG | CIMG INC | CIMG has engaged in a pattern of "strategic pivots" (coffee to "Digital Health" to "AI Marketing" to "Computing Power" to "Bitcoin Reserve") accompanied by high-value contract announcements (e.g., $12... |
| JW.A | John Wiley and Sons Inc Class A | Wiley's subsidiary Hindawi was forced to retract over 8,000 compromised articles due to "systemic manipulation" of the peer-review process by "paper mills." This represents a fundamental failure in th... |
| KO | Coca-Cola Company (The) | Coca-Cola has been the subject of multiple legal actions and public allegations concerning misleading environmental claims, a practice commonly known as greenwashing. In September 2024, a dismissed fa... |
| LIF | LIFE360 INC | In March 2024, Life360 experienced a massive data breach exposing personal information of 442,519 customers (names, emails, phone numbers) via an unsecured API endpoint. The company's "Family Safety" ... |
| META | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Meta's platforms have been documented by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the UN as enabling and amplifying hate speech and incitement to violence against Tigrayan, Rohingya, and Palesti... |
| NMAX | NEWSMAX INC | Dominion v. Newsmax (judge ruled false content established April 2025; settled $67M August 2025) + Smartmatic v. Newsmax (settled $40M September 2024); Newsmax IPO on NYSE March 31, 2025; internal doc... |
| NWS | News Corporation Class B | News Corporation, through its media properties including Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post, has been a central and influential actor in the systematic spread of misinformation. ... |
| NWSA | News Corporation Class A | News Corporation (Class A shares) is the Murdoch family's publishing and media empire (Wall Street Journal, New York Post, HarperCollins, news.com.au). Same controlling family as Fox Corporation. The ... |
| PHM | PULTEGROUP INC | PulteGroup terminated a former employee following an internal investigation into their use of multiple anonymous Twitter accounts to attack members of the company’s founding family. A subsequent share... |
| RUM | Rumble Network | Rumble Inc operates a video-sharing platform with minimal content moderation that has become a hub for election misinformation, COVID conspiracy theories, and QAnon content. Platform design permits co... |
| SG | SWEETGREEN INC | Sweetgreen publicly pledged to become carbon neutral by 2027 while simultaneously taking actions that contradict that commitment. In 2024 the company added steak to its menu, directly increasing the c... |
| TMDX | TRANSMEDICS GROUP INC | Scorpion Capital report (January 2025) alleges TransMedics concealed data on rejected organs and misrepresented clinical outcomes. Pattern of misleading investors and regulators about organ viability ... |
| XOM | Exxon Mobil Corporation | Peer-reviewed analysis of 180 ExxonMobil communications found the company systematically deployed tobacco-industry rhetorical tactics to mislead the public about climate science — framing climate chan... |
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