The Censorship Industrial Complex

The Deep State doesn't like Free Speech. You might think thoughts they don't approve of. Key group in government censorship project boasted of suppressing Trump message, defunding newsrooms | Just The News

The Global Disinformation Index (GDI) was awarded grants through its U.S.-based affiliate, AN Foundation, from NED, a congressionally chartered and taxpayer-funded agency in Washington. The grants were paid to develop strategies on how to fight perceived disinformation in foreign countries.

But GDI's quarterly progress reports often explicitly boasted about the impact of censorship efforts on American targets and audiences.

They targeted The Blaze, The New York Post, The Daily Wire, Newsmax, and The Federalist. At least. They also specifically targeted Trump, and were so pleased when he was kicked off of social media in 2021.

Mike Benz, the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online and a major anti-censorship activist, said the documents were stunning and disturbing.

“I am absolutely disgusted by these revelations, as should be every American and every world citizen to see the US government, under the Biden administration, actively funding a full-out campaign to pressure advertisers to defund private independent news sites who competed with the Biden State Department’s media narratives," Benz told Just the News.

"Everyone involved in this should be fired, and frankly, NED itself must be defunded," he added.

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Hat tip to The Geller Report - Government Censorship Project Boasted of Suppressing Trump Message, Defunding Newsrooms

For years, my colleagues and I have been fighting this enormous machine of censorship. We knew it was an immense machine but we did not know the US government was behind it.