House Republicans step up pressure on State Department over funding for ‘disinformation’ index -
A dozen House Republicans on Saturday doubled down on GOP demands for answers overfunding for a foreign media monitoring group that provides “dynamic blacklists” used to suppress disfavored news outlets.
In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken led by Rep. Andrew Clyde, Georgia Republican, the lawmakers added to previous calls that theanswer for hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants to the Global Disinformation Index through two government-backed entities. “These grants have real-world implications, chilling freedom of expression and speech with impunity,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter first reported by The Washington Examiner.The lawmakers’ demands for details behind the grants add to previous scrutiny from Republican lawmakers after The Examiner reported last month that GDI received U.S. taxpayer-funded grants.
On Friday, Rep. Ken Buck, Colorado Republican asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a letter to “cease all current and future taxpayer funding of the GDI” and spell out how much U.S. funding is spent on third-party groups that “implicate the rights of free speech of American citizens.”
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