EXCLUSIVE — The StateDept 'stands by' its widely scrutinized grant to a group dcexaminer revealed is blacklisting conservative media outlets, according to a letter to Congress.
EXCLUSIVE — The State Department"stands by" its widely scrutinized grant to a group the Washington Examiner revealed is blacklisting conservative media outlets, according to a letter to Congress.
The letter from Issa, who sits on the Judiciary and House Foreign Affairs committees, called on the State Department to"undertake a prompt and comprehensive inquiry into any grants, authorities, and policies" that may have been unlawfully"used to curtail the free expression of conservative and/or domestic media, and to take corrective measures as warranted by the results of such investigation.
As the Washington Examiner has reported since February 2022, the GDI was awarded $100,000 through the government's U.S.-Paris Tech Challenge, which sought to"advance the development of promising and innovative technologies against disinformation and propaganda across the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom," according to the Atlantic Council, a think tank that partnered for the challenge.
"America’s foreign adversaries and competitors have wielded information manipulation as a tool of statecraft for decades," Durakoglu added."The comparatively recent proliferation of global information and communications technology accentuates a contemporary national security risk.
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