EXCLUSIVE: StateDept has missed a deadline set by RepJamesComer to provide documents related to the agency's funding of the Global Disinformation Index, a group blacklisting conservative media outlets.
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Comer, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, demanded on Feb. 23 that the department turn over records by March 9 related to GDI, which received $665,000 combined between 2020 and 2021 from the State Department-backed Global Engagement Center and National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit group. However, the State Department missed the deadline and has been in touch with Comer, according to the committee.
Comer is seeking State Department records in connection to grants"used to suppress" news groups in the United States and to GDI, as well as communications between government contractors, employees, and grantees in the U.S. and overseas"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.
"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 Feb. 23 letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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