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Disinformation Inc: GOP slams government for funding group blacklisting conservative news
This is part of a Washington Examiner investigative series on self-styled 'disinformation' monitors that are secretly blacklisting and aiming to defund disfavored speech. Here you can read other stories in the series.
EXCLUSIVE — Republican senators and representatives are raising concerns over the
State Department bankrolling a "disinformation" tracking group that is secretly
blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media outlets.
The State Department has
granted hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Global Disinformation Index, a British organization with two affiliated U.S. nonprofit groups that is feeding blacklists of conservative media to advertising companies, according to
multiple Washington Examiner reports. Now, GOP members of Congress are slamming the government over this funding, which First Amendment lawyers have said appears troubling.
“It ought to scare everybody in this country, regardless of whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, that the government is that involved in censoring speech," Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), told the
Washington Examiner. "The unholy alliance between government and Big Tech must be dismantled."
Disinformation Inc: GOP slams government for funding group blacklisting conservative news