Federal Disinformation Initiative Flagged For Targeting U.S. Media Despite Assurances
By Margot Cleveland | The Federalist
The evidence uncovered during litigation should shake Americans awake to the threat to their liberties.
Staff with the Global Engagement Center (“GEC”) told a State Department official that its testbed platform “will NOT focus on US audiences,” but then proceeded to fund a trial targeting The Blaze — a Texas-based media outlet. The Federalist uncovered this detail during discovery in its lawsuit against the State Department and the GEC, which the plaintiffs settled last week after the Defendants agreed to detailed prophylactic measures to prevent similar violations of Americans’ First Amendment rights.
The Federalist, along with The Daily Wire, sued the State Department and GEC in December of 2023, after learni...
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