State Dept.-backed group drops ‘disinformation’ index targeting conservative outlets -
The National Endowment for Democracy, a private foundation created by Congress whose annual funding is part of the State Department budget, said it will no longer provide grants to the index after“Recently, we became aware that one of our grantees, the Global Disinformation Index , was engaged in an initiative, funded by a different donor, that focused on specific U.S. media outlets,” the NED said Tuesday in a statement to The Washington Times.
The NED is one of two State Department-backed groups listed as GDI funders, the other being the Global Engagement Center, which gave the index $100,000.The Times that the “Global Engagement Center in no way moderates content on social media platforms; that is not its mission or its intent.” The index’s funders include Democratic megadonor George Soros through the Open Society Foundations, his primary grantmaking vehicle.
George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley commended the NED for ending its association with the index but said he still has questions, including whether the Biden administration is funding similar programs.
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