US Government Funds Group Seeking to Blacklist Conservative Media

U.S. taxpayer funds have been funneled to a British group that wants to block money from conservative media outlets.
State Department-backed entities have funded the London-based Global Disinformation Index (GDI) with the aim of “defunding disinformation.”
The National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit that is primarily funded by the government, passed on $230,000 in 2020 to the AN Foundation, according to the nonprofit’s website.
The AN Foundation is the U.S. arm of the GDI, the Washington Examiner reported.
According to the endowment, the grant would help the foundation “work with local partners in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean to research and assess disinformation risks of local online media ecosystems, using artificial intelligence as well as expert review.”…}