NewsGuard had contracts with the Defense Department, State Department, and European Union
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer wrote a letter to the firm, NewsGuard, demanding more details about the public-private collaboration that led last year to the State Department beingNewsGuard has briefed committee staff on contracts it had with the Defense Department in 2021, including the Cyber National Mission Force within US Cyber Command; the State Department and its Global Engagement Center; and the EU’s Joint Research Centre.
“These wide-ranging connections with various government agencies are taking place as the government is rapidly expanding into the censorship sphere,” the chairman wrote. “For example, one search of government grants and contracts from 2016 through 2023 revealed that there were 538 separate grants and 36 different government contracts specifically to address ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation.’”
In 2022, GDI distributed a “Disinformation Risk Assessment” that rated the “riskiest” sites for factual news as The Federalist, the Daily Wire, Newsmax, the American Conservative, Reason Magazine and the New York Post, among others.
Some Democrats have since been suggesting that the only way to defeat pushback to their policies is by crushing the First Amendment.“The protection of First Amendment rights of American citizens is paramount and attempts by government actors to infringe on those rights is dangerous,” Comer warned Crovitz and Steven Brill.
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