Disinformation Inc: State Department misses deadline to provide info on conservative blacklists

This is part a Washington Examiner Series of self-styled “disinformation” tracking groups that are trying to blacklist and defund conservative media. Here This is where you will find more Stories The series.

EXCLUSIVE — THe State Department Rep. James Comer (R-KY), to provide documents relating to the funding of the agency Global Disinformation Index, which blacklists conservative media outlets.

Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Requirements On Feb. 23, the department requested that records concerning GDI be turned over by March 9. These records were related to GDI which received $665,000 from the State Department. This total was for 2020-2021. Global Engagement Center National Endowment for DemocracyThe non-profit group is. The committee reports that the State Department missed the deadline but has been in touch to Comer.

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“The State Department has informed us that it is working on identifying and producing documents that are responsive to Chairman Comer’s request,” The spokesperson for the House Oversight and Accountability Committee said that the spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. “We will continue to press the State Department to provide answers about passing taxpayer dollars to groups attempting to blacklist conservative news outlets.”

Republicans, Includes Comer, continue to raise concerns over the State Department funding GDI. The Washington Examiner first reported GDI blacklist in February. The disinformation tracker claimed that 10 “riskiest” Outlets are available FederalistThe American ConservativeThe Daily Wire, RealClearPolitics, The New York Post, and other right leaning outlets.

Comer requests records from the State Department to help him with his grant application “used to suppress” News groups in the United States and to GDI as well as communications among government contractors, employees and grantees both in the U.S.A. and abroad “relating to any efforts to suppress so-called mis-, dis-, or mal- information uttered or hosted by any individual or organization within the United States.”

He also wants records that show the identities of those who may have encouraged him. “a third party to take action” United States entities that host content determined or funded by the federal government are prohibited from being “disinformation” Or “misinformation.”

“The Committee is disturbed by recent reporting that taxpayer money ended up in the hands of a foreign organization running an advertising blacklist of organizations accused of hosting disinformation on their websites, including several conservative-leaning news organizations,” Comer wrote in his February 23, 2003 letter to Secretary Antony Blinken.

In Comer’s letter, the State Department was also requested to brie