Next on Disinformation Inc: A conservative advocacy group has opened a public records investigation following multiple dcexaminer reports on the State Department bankrolling an organization blacklisting and taking steps to shut down conservative media.
on Thursday. “Federal agencies don’t get to shut down ideas they don’t like – whether they’re doing it directly through bad policies or indirectly through vague grants. Recent reports about State Department funding raises serious questions. Americans deserve answers. And AFPF is committed to getting them.”
The conservative group sent the two requests on Thursday, noting that"tax dollars should not be used to censor U.S. citizens or companies." AFPF is demanding"documents reflecting any financial support — or details of that support — given to the GDI, Disinformation Index, Inc., AN Foundation, Disinformation Index Foundation, or Park Advisers."
Disinformation Index and Disinformation Index Foundation, previously the AN Foundation, are two U.S. nonprofit groups affiliated with GDI, thereported. Park Advisers is an investment group that fights"disinformation, terrorism, violent extremism, hate speech" and was given the $100,000 that the Global Engagement Center later handed to GDI, according to the State Department.
AFPF is also asking for"internal and external communications" in the form of emails, texts, instant messages, and calendar items regarding money going to the various groups, according to the FOIA requests. It clarified a time period of Jan. 1, 2021, to present day. "It’s one thing for people and private organizations to fact-check and push back against bad ideas,” said David Voorman, senior policy analyst for Americans for Prosperity. “It’s something entirely different for a powerful government actor to step into the game.”
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