This is part of a Washington Examiner investigative series on self-styled 'disinformation' monitors that are secretly blacklisting and aiming to defund disfavored speech. Here you can read other stories in the series.
"The State Department should not be funding woke organizations who seek to censor and demonetize conservative outlets," Stefanik told the."House Republicans will assert our oversight over the State Department’s funding of these type of groups."
"We’ve seen recently how the U.S. government has tried to use the tech sector to control the narrative on many issues," said Sen. Marsha Blackburn , a member of the House Judiciary Committee."Outlets such as theare among the biggest pushers of disinformation yet are ranked as very trustworthy by the index.”
Rep. Austin Norman , a member of the House Committee on Financial Services, said it is"absolutely unacceptable" for the U.S. government"to be involved, in any capacity, with efforts to censor free speech."Washington Examiner ."The State Department must answer to Congress and the American people as to how this was allowed to happen.”
One company that has subscribed to GDI's blacklist is the Microsoft-owned Xandr, which is now conducting an internal review and has stopped using the disinformation tracker's services. That latest action is the result of aon Xandr's own blacklist of conservative media, which was leaked by whistleblowers in the ad industry.
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