Posted on 05/20/2023 5:36:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The State Department is steering over $37,000 to a Bolivian nonprofit group to launch a "campaign against disinformation" training program for journalists in the South American country, funding documents show.
Thwarting alleged "disinformation" has remained a top priority of the Biden administration, which has come under fire from Republicans for bankrolling left-leaning entities taking aim at conservative websites over their advertising revenue. President Joe Biden's State Department is now in the process of granting taxpayer dollars until April 2024 to Fundacion para el Periodismo, which translates to Foundation for Journalism, so the Bolivian entity can create a "network of 150 journalists and mass communicators specialized in combating disinformation," according to grant records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
"This is a boondoggle of a junket that taxpayers are having to pay for," Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), who sits on the House Budget Committee, told the Washington Examiner. "Why Bolivia? We've got enough disinformation in this country that this administration has done."
The grant is a window into how the Biden administration has continually sought to make fighting purported "disinformation" a global effort. The State Department, for instance, is currently fielding applications for an award that will see one U.S. group take home $1.9 million to craft a sweeping media education program that will train people in at least 16 European and Central Asian countries on how to counter "disinformation," documents show.
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Countering “disinformation” by pushing communist propaganda and suppressing the truth.
$37,000 is like a nickel to Biden White House
When you write checks to the IRS these stories have a very special burn to them. Jail time should be an option for those who waste taxpayer dollars like this. Government is so far beyond bloated and wasteful, the bureaucracy needs CTRL-ALT-DEL. ASAP.
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