House Foreign Affairs Republicans sent a letter on Tuesday to Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanding more information about the department’s funding of groups that censor conservatives and free speech.
Chairman Michael McCaul , Foreign Affairs Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee Chair Brian Mast , Reps. Chris Smith , Darrell Issa , Maria Salazar , Keith Self , Cory Mills , and Ken Buck mentioned that the committee would postpone reauthorizing the Global Engagement Center as Republicans have accused the State Department subagency of funding censorship.
“The GEC’s founding mission, effectively, was to provide a ready resource for the truth about America and our fight against global terror, particularly ISIS,” the Foreign Affairs Republicans“[But now we] are forced to wonder about the authority by which the GEC justifies its mission creep, and the direction of its current evolutionary trajectory,” the lawmakers added.
GDI receives funding from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations and offers advertising clients its Dynamic Exclusion List, which lists the likeliness of an outlet to be at risk of spreading disinformation. As Breitbart News has The State Department also partnered with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue , the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab, and Moonshot CVE on combatting disinformation, according to the House Republicans.
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