This is part of a Washington Examiner series on self-styled 'disinformation' tracking groups that are blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media. Here is where you can read other stories in the series.
This is part of a Washington Examiner series on self-styled 'disinformation' tracking groups that are blacklisting and trying to defund conservative media. Here is where you can read other stories in the series.
"American taxpayer dollars should never be used to suppress our First Amendment rights protected in the U.S. Constitution," Comer told the Washington Examiner on Thursday."The fact that the State Department allowed federal funds to flow to foreign organizations who seek to blacklist American news organizations goes against our core values. Secretary [Antony] Blinken must provide the American people with answers about this abuse of taxpayer dollars.
"Though the agencies can deny they are funding this activity, money is fungible, and these organizations can claim the government’s stamp of approval for their operations," Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public's Trust, a watchdog group that has filed several public records requests to the government over GDI funding, told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday.The House Foreign Affairs Committee, led by Rep.
Shortly after this meeting, on Monday, the Washington Examiner reported that the NED announced it would no longer provide future grants to GDI. The nonprofit group did so"to avoid the perception that NED is engaged in any work domestically, directly or indirectly," an NED spokeswoman said. "I'm going to focus my time on the weaponization subcommittee on these matters. This direct assault on the First Amendment and the ways in which the exquisite powers of the government has been merged with the capabilities of technology to constrain rights that Americans have long held close and cherished," Rep. Matt Gaetz , a subcommittee member, told the Washington Examiner on Feb. 16.
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