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GOP lawmaker probes alleged State Dept funding of UK’s ‘Global Disinformation Index’
Fox news ^ | March 9, 2023 | Brianna Herlihy

Posted on 03/09/2023 7:19:18 AM PST by McGruff

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., is demanding answers about the alleged use of State Department funding for the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) in Great Britain and "other organizations that seek to censor the free flow of information," and conservative news outlets in particular.

In a letter exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, Buck told Secretary of State Antony Blinken that "taxpayers employ the State Department and all its officials to promote their interests and protect the Constitution."

"Paying foreign (and domestic) entities to perform what is essentially censorship is troubling on two fronts: it wastes taxpayer funds and undermines constitutional protections for freedom of speech," Buck wrote.

"The Global Disinformation Index… is a British-based organization that purports to provide a ‘neutral, independent, transparent index of a website’s risk of disinforming readers,’" Buck wrote.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: creepstate; deepstate; policestate; singlepartystate

1 posted on 03/09/2023 7:19:18 AM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

We give them too much money.


2 posted on 03/09/2023 7:28:50 AM PST by dljordan
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