Disinformation Inc: Ken Buck presses State Department on grants to conservative blacklist group

This is part a Washington Examiner series of self-styled “disinformation” Tracking groups trying to blacklist conservative media outlets and defund them. Here This is the place to read more stories In the series.

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), is pressing the State Department For more information, click here funding Global Disinformation Index: A group which tracks the spread of disinformation. Washington Examiner revealed is feeding conservative website blacklists Advertisement companies

The State Department supports the Global Engagement Center (and National Endowment for Democracy) and is a nonprofit Records show that the GDI was granted $665,000 by the group between 2020-2021. Buck, who is on the House Judiciary House Foreign Affairs Committees and the Republican Lawmaker is the most recent to demand that the department disclose information about funding for GDI. according A letter that the congressman wrote Wednesday to Secretary Antony Blinken

DISINFORMATION INC: DARRELL ISSA DEMANDS STATE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATE CONSERVATIVE BLACKLIST GROUP

“Taxpayers employ the State Department and all its officials to promote their interests and protect the Constitution,” Buck sent his letter. “Paying foreign (and domestic) entities to perform what is essentially censorship is troubling on two fronts: it wastes taxpayer funds and undermines constitutional protections for freedom of speech.”

GDI compiles You can find more information at “dynamic exclusion list” of conservative sites, including the Washington ExaminerIt flags itself as one of the largest disinformation peddlers. It claimed the 10 “riskiest” News outlets can be found at Daily WireThe New York Post, RealClearPoliticsThe FederalistWebsites that are right-leaning.

The group claims that they are actually claiming the “least risky” Sites can be found at Associated Press, InsiderThe New York Times, USA Today, Buzzfeed News, HuffPostOther left-leaning magazines and publications.

“For these reasons, we request the U.S. Department of State cease all current and future taxpayer funding of the GDI and all other efforts from the State Department to fund “Research on disinformation” that silences American citizens,” Buck continued his letter.

Buck sent his letter to Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), urged