Rubio, Johnson Demand Inquiry Into Media Blacklists

This is part a Washington Examiner Investigative series on self-described “disinformation” tracking groups that are secretly blacklisting conservative media outlets and trying to defund them. 
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EXCLUSIVE — RSens.
Marco Rubio
(FL)
Ron Johnson
(WI) demand an investigation into the United States government
Bankrolling
A secret organization
Blacklisting
Trying to defund conservative media outlets.

The National Endowment for Democracy and the Global Engagement Center are two State Department-backed entities.
You have been granted
$665,000
Combination
Global Disinformation Index (GDI), which feeds conservative website blacklists and advertising companies. Johnson and Rubio now want an inquiry into the flow of taxpayer money to GDI which intends to end disfavored speech.

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“Free speech is fundamental to preserving our liberty,” Johnson, who is a member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and ranked in the top 10, told the Washington Examiner. “If taxpayer dollars are being used to censor voices because they are critical of the administration’s disastrous policies, every American should be concerned. We need to further investigate this potential First Amendment violation.”

GDI compiles a “dynamic exclusion list”
This list is subscribed by advertising companies. This list is maintained by the Washington Examiner It was discovered that it contains sites the group considers disinformation peddlers. Separately, GDI said that the 10 “riskiest” Websites are the American SpectatorNewsmax, FederalistThe American Conservative One America News, Blaze, The Daily Wire, RealClearPolitics – ReasonThe, and New York Post.

Microsoft’s Xandr is an advertising company that has subscribed to the list. This helped defund conservative sites. Follow the Washington Examiner
Publishing Xandr’s
a blacklist for the company, and launched an
Internal review
And
The relationship was terminated
With GDI.

“The internet was intended to democratize speech and the State Department has a mandate to stop authoritarian regimes’ attempts to silence it, but we’re now seeing just the opposite as governments and corporations collude to silence certain points of view,” Rubio, vice chairman of the Select Intelligence Committee, told the Washington Examiner.

“Americans deserve a full accounting of how their taxpayer dollars were used, and those responsible for violating the public trust should be held accountable,” Rubio was added.

The public is still not privy to the full extent of GDI’s blacklist. One member of the group’s senior advisory panel told the However Washington Examiner Media outlets that are affiliated with it “riskiest” List would also “probably” Included on the exclusion list

Recent concerns have been raised by many Republican lawmakers about government funding for GDI. Rep. James Comer is chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
He stated that he intended to
“press” The Biden administration.

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Sen.
Ted Cruz
(R-TX), also addressed the blacklists.

“One of the most disturbing things we’ve seen in recent years is the eagerness of Big Tech to get in bed with Big Government and with Democrats, in the Biden administration, Democrats burrowed into career positions in the Deep State and Democrats in Congress,” Cruz said
Who has opened an investigation
As a ranking member of the Senate, he was responsible for social media censorship of conservatives.
Senate
Commerce Committee.

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