EXCLUSIVE: GOP members of Congress demanded answers from StateDept over it bankrolling a 'disinformation' tracking group that is blacklisting and trying to shut down conservative websites. Rep_Clyde led 12 lawmakers in sending a letter to SecBlinken.
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.
GDI, a British organization with two linked U.S. nonprofit groups, compiles a"dynamic exclusion list" with at least 2,000 sites it deems to be the foremost disinformation peddlers. The Washington Examiner learned exclusively that it is on this list, which advertising companies subscribe to in order to choose which sites to defund.
However, NED announced last month that it will no longer support GDI in order"to avoid the perception" that it's working on"any work domestically, directly or indirectly," since it focuses on foreign matters. Still, the State Department's Global Engagement Center, which granted $100,000 to GDI in 2021 as part of the U.S. Paris Tech Challenge, a program to fight"disinformation" overseas, has not made a similar commitment.
The lawmakers also questioned the State Department over whether it was"involved or consulted" in connection to GDI's various analyses of alleged disinformation, including a Dec. 16, 2022, report titled"Disinformation Risk Assessment: The Online News Market in the United States." The December report notably included GDI's lists of the"riskiest" and"least riskiest" news outlets.
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