Fake “fact check” groups are frequently funded by special interests such as pharmaceutical industry advocates, advocates for illegal immigration and transgender politics, and advocates for the controversial theory of climate change. Now, a new report measures the millions of taxpayer dollars involved.
The following is from Children’s Health Defense.
A new report from the US House of Representatives Committee on Small Business reveals that the US State Department funneled millions of taxpayer dollars to organizations that engaged in the censorship of lawful American speech. These organizations, including NewsGuard and the International Fact-Checking Network, targeted media outlets and social media users who questioned or opposed Biden administration policies.
The report by the US House of Representatives Committee on Small Business stated:
“The Federal government has funded, developed, and promoted entities that aim to demonetize news and information outlets because of their lawful speech.”
The report highlights that the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) played a key role, in collaboration with other groups like NewsGuard, in promoting domestic censorship capabilities. It also outlines the GEC’s funding of foreign governments with strict internet speech laws, including countries in the European Union and the United Kingdom, to censor speech online.
These censorship activities targeted independent media outlets, making it difficult for them to compete in the digital space. The report claims this “censorship ecosystem” violated First Amendment rights by suppressing lawful speech and collaborating with foreign governments.
The report also addresses lawsuits alleging that the government’s collaboration with social media companies to censor speech violated constitutional rights, including Murthy v. Missouri and Kennedy v. Biden, filed by Children’s Health Defense.
For more details, read the full article here.
If you study the “fact checkers” you will soon discover many are not fact checkers. If you did deep into a particular fact check subject you can show them to be wrong or inaccurate. I put little faith in any fact check organization, especially now. Their being twisted to favor a democratic regime. A crooked one at that.
Not in the case of the Harris campaign ads. They keep saying President Trump will implement the Project 2025 program. Even though he never read it .
and the braindead programmed sheeple are kept distracted by the extreme negativity of the red party toward the blue party and don’t notice dictatorship creeping in.
You know this article is just an accurate representation and a repeating symbol of the corruption, arrogance, contagion and insolence of this horrid Administration.
But, more important, the article is also an incredible and indelible tattoo on the face of the Main Stream Media (MSM) and its ostentatious lack of credibility. This lack of legitimacy of “fact checking” is probably one of the reasons that the ABC debate hosts gave Trump fact checks that were inaccurate.
And the ABC bias was revealed to all when those hosts (they should be called game show hosts-not journalists) refused to fact check Kamala once.
Their obvious censorship will be repeated once again when none of the MSM prints this important article. The disgusting and pompous MSM will once again engage in their closed-eyed censorship and in their “fact checking” bias.
These people are nothing but censorious flacks and will be (and already are) the downfall of this nation.
The Founders thought the news media would help keep the Government in check. They thought that false news would be printed, but I don’t believe that they thought for a second that the MSM of the 21st century would OMIT printing the news.
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