House GOP Report: State Department Office Funded Groups Engaged in Domestic Censorship

Breitbart ^ | 09/11/2024 | Lucas Nolan

[ChicagoConservative27]

A new congressional report accuses an office within the State Department of funding groups that targeted and censored small businesses in the United States, overstepping its mandate to combat foreign disinformation.

The Washington Examiner outlines a recently released report by the Republican-led House Small Business Committee that raises serious concerns about the activities of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC). The 66-page report alleges that the GEC, which has an estimated budget of $61 million and a staff of 125, has been funding groups engaged in domestic censorship, thereby skirting its primary mandate of thwarting foreign disinformation.

The investigation, which began following a series of reports on the GEC’s involvement with the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a British group pressuring advertisers to defund right-of-center media outlets in the U.S., has uncovered a pattern of questionable funding practices. The report argues that the GEC promoted “tech start-ups and other small businesses in the disinformation detection space to private sector entities with domestic censorship capabilities.”

[ChicagoConservative27]

Trump needs to be all over this

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Pete Dovgan]

Congress needs to set another Constitutional Amendment.

Amendment 28 Government Treason.

Section 1: “Any government employee, who uses government resources for political purposes, will be subject to a charge of Treason”

Section 2: “Any Federal government employee or Contractor who disseminates classified information for profit, or political gain, will be subject to a charge of Treason”.

Section 3: “Any Intelligence or State Department employee, engaged in political activities while on active service, will be subject to a charge of Treason. These individuals will be tried in Military Tribunals, and subject to Public Hanging.

Section 4: “Any intelligence or State Department employee, who engages in accepting gifts or assistance from foreign governments, for personal gain or future political gain, will be the subject to charges of Treason”. These individuals will be tried in Military Tribunals, and subject to Public Hanging

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[Liz]

Biden’s State Dept Global Engagement Center’s FY 2020 budget
<><>totaled $74.26 million, of which $60 million was appropriated by Congress.
<><>GEC federal assistance programs totaled some $15.7 million in FY 2019- 2020
<><>approximately $16.9 million in FY 2020-2021.
<><>GEC in FY 2020 spent $16.2 million on analytics, research, and technology.

https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-public-diplomacy-and-public-affairs/global-engagement-center/