USAID Funded Massive 'News' Platform, Extending 'Censorship Industrial Complex' To Billions Worldwide

WikiLeaks ^ | 02/07/2025 | Staff

[thegagline]

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.

Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at http://archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.

IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)

[thegagline]

The depth and breadth of the corruption is ubiquitous.

[CIB-173RDABN]

DOGE is exposing what real fascism looks like. The government paying others to do what they are prohibited to do.

How many problem do we have our world today caused by this secret organization.

The courts need to get out of the way and let DOGE expose the crimes being committed in our name.

[oldplayer]

Go down the rabbit hole referenced in the article as “Internews Network.”

Leftists everywhere.

[Paladin2]

https://www.weforum.org/stories/authors/jeanne-bourgault/

[JonPreston]

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over…— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 8, 2025

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.

Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at http://archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.

IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)

[Dan Zachary]

[Albion Wilde]

[Dan Zachary]

Fact Check-True

‘(b) Rule of Construction- Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors from engaging in any medium or form of communication, either directly or indirectly, because a United States domestic audience is or may be thereby exposed to program material, or based on a presumption of such exposure. Such material may be made available within the United States and disseminated, when appropriate...

link

[Albion Wilde]

Your link has been 404’d. There’ve been a lot of cockroaches scurrying around in the past couple of weeks.

[Albion Wilde]

DOGE is exposing what real fascism looks like. The government paying others to do what they are prohibited to do.

Bingo!

[Albion Wilde]

The commies always use the poor as human shields for their grift. If they gave a crap, there wouldn't be any starvation.

[JonPreston]

absolutely

[Jane Long]

FTA ...

... Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at http://archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted....

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Telling!

Praying Hildebeast’s (and, many others) grift wagon is about to come to a screaching halt.

[Jane Long]

BTTT!

[Dan Zachary]

Interesting. Try this link

[Albion Wilde]

Related FR links from alternative media about global organizations that seek to control information:

Propaganda Media Ignores Story of Obama-Related CIA Corruption

A Long-Forgotten CIA Document From WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on Today's U.S. Politics and Wars

The Sovietization of the American Press by Matt Taibbi, Part 1
The Sovietization of the American Press by Matt Taibbi, Part 2

Friday News Roundup: Glenn Greenwald Reveals how the CIA Owns America’s Corrupt Media

How the Media Secretly Carries Out Assignments for the CIA

Glenn Greenwald Unravels Democrat-Sponsored ‘Regime Of Censorship’ In Damning Thread

Propaganda Acolytes: 54 Soros-Tied Figures Linked to Major Media

Study Finds Less Than 4 Percent of American Journalists Are Republicans

House Judiciary Committee Report Exposes Shadowy Corporate Coordination to Silence Conservatives

The Censorship Cartel: How Biden and Big Tech Colluded to Silence Americans

[Opinion: Sundance]
Unfortunately, The Trump Cabinet Will Likely Expand the Surveillance State

[Albion Wilde]

Thank you for the link to the original. Good grief. The congress would have needed a game-theory translator to understand the twisted legalese here that gave the workaround to other nations to spread propaganda to U.S. audiences. “Obie-wan was in league with the prince of the powers of the air.

b RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors from engaging in any medium or form of communication, either directly or indirectly, because a United States domestic audience is or may be thereby exposed to program material, or based on a presumption of such exposure. Such material may be made available within the United States and disseminated, when appropriate, pursuant to sections 502 and 1005 of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1462 and 1437), except that nothing in this section may be construed to authorize the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to disseminate within the United States any program material prepared for dissemination abroad on or before the effective date of section 1078 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013.

You can see how a senator, rep or aide could read the first couple of paragraphs before this one and think the bill is fine -- and just sign off.

[Dan Zachary]

I always preferred reading the original document as people on both sides of the aisle have twisted things, taken it out of context, or outright lied.

[Albion Wilde]

Quite right!