Rep. Ken Buck is demanding answers from Secretary of State Antony Blinken on taxpayer dollars flowing through the State Department to fund “disinformation research.”
It reportedly secured $100,000 from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center and $545,000 from the government-funded National Endowment for Democracy before creating a December blacklist of 10 outlets, including The Post.
“Reports of taxpayer funding for censorship are troubling but unfortunately, no longer isolated,” Buck writes, citing revelations from the “Twitter Files” investigative reports that showed the State Department’s Global Engagement Center contracted with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab to provide expertise on combating online disinformation but instead of receiving lists of paid foreign bots, the government agency received lists of US citizens “marked for censorship.
The GDI accused The Post of being “high-risk” because of an alleged “lack of transparency around operational policies and practices.” But The Post publishes bylines on news stories, cites by name or transparently describes sources and publishes corrections when errors are reported, as is common practice for major news organizations.
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