Mark Chenoweth, the president and chief legal officer of New Civil Liberties Alliance, discusses how conservative media has been censored thanks to the U.S. State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) and what his organization is doing to combat this.
The government funding bill includes a one-year extension of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), an agency that funds organizations that censor conservative media including Breitbart News.
The Global Disinformation Index was criticised by The Times for fake neutrality while enforcing censorship based on ideological lines.
Besides battling for free speech, Greene detailed several other items Republicans are working to keep in the final version of the NDAA, which authorizes $866 billion for national programs in the 2024 fiscal year.
House Foreign Affairs Republicans sent a letter on Tuesday to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding more information about the department’s funding of groups that censor conservatives and free speech.
Paul Fitzpatrick, the president of the 1792 Exchange, told Breitbart News Daily that the foreign disinformation advocacy organization Global Disinformation Index possibly changed some elections’ outcomes because it chokes off information.
Oracle, an international technology giant known for its cloud and enterprise products, has cut ties with the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), the UK-based, State Department-funded group that advised advertisers to blacklist conservative media.
The Global Disinformation Index (GDI) and establishment outlets such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, spread “disinformation” by attacking Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) for spreading the increasingly credible theory that the coronavirus pandemic originated from a virology lab in Wuhan, China.
Dr. Daniel Rogers, the cofounder and executive director of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), wrote an op-ed for Time magazine calling for sweeping tech reforms to block President Donald Trump or “someone like him” from getting elected.
Christina Pushaw, a spokesperson for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), torched the Global Disinformation Index’s (GDI) definition of disinformation, contending that the “entire legacy media” is full of disinformation.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said Wednesday that it would be extremely concerning if the U.S. government funded the foreign “data-driven advocacy organization,” the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), which she said is being used to target conservative media outlets.
Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) are demanding an investigation into reports that U.S.-backed entities funded a foreign think tank that is trying to blacklist and defund conservative media outlets.
Dr. Daniel Rogers, the cofounder and executive director of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a group funded by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, claimed supporters of former President Donald Trump cannot be deprogrammed from alleged disinformation.
Microsoft has stopped partnering with a foreign think tank, pending review, that was designed to blacklist conservative media. The tech company also reportedly removed negative flags for conservative media outlets.
The Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a foreign think tank headquartered in the United Kingdom, released an assessment of American online media, designed to blacklist conservative media outlets and choke off their advertising revenue. The information is kept on what GDI calls its “Dynamic Exclusion List.”
