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https://twitter.com/America1stLegal/status/1661361562580287489

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/25/state-department-partners-with-left-leaning-media-in-propaganda-push-documents-reveal/

America First Legal @America1stLegal
May 24
/1🚨BREAKING — America First Legal released documents obtained from a
FOIA lawsuit against the Department of State, exposing how the Global
Engagement Center carries out state propaganda through private media
organizations. Disturbing thread below ⤵️

May 24, 2023 · 1:20 PM UTC · Twitter for iPhone
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/2 The GEC routinely coordinates with a global cartel of “independent”
“fact-checkers” led by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies (which
operates Politifact) and members of its International Fact-Checking
Network (IFCN).
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/3 IFCN received its initial funding from the Department of
State-funded National Endowment for Democracy, the Omidyar Network,
Google, Facebook, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and George
Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
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/4 Members of this vast cartel range from independent foreign
journalists to professional fact-checkers to American mainstream media
organizations like the Associated Press and USA Today. Notably,
Poynter’s IFCN received a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
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/5 The GEC regularly works with IFCN on targeted campaigns. For
example, the GEC worked closely with Baybars Orsek, Poynter’s director
of international programming, to set up an IFCN partner in Tunisia.
The “GEC-funded project” would work on “achieving two main objectives:
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/6 The GEC also funded a grant through the Institute for War and Peace
Reporting (IWPR) on “Empowering Fact-Checking in the Global South,”
and it enlisted Baybars Orsek and Alanna Dvorak, Poynter’s
International Training Manager, for a potential “mentorship through
Poynter/IFCN”… nitter.pw/i/web/status/166…
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/7 In particular, the GEC aimed to ensure that two specific media
organizations in Tunisia would “absorb the fact-checking skills” to
censor disfavored narratives from the news.
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/8 Another email conversation later shows a GEC official thanking the
IFCN International Training Manager for “speaking with AfricaCheck
about [her] work in Tunisia.”
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/9 AfricaCheck is a fact-checking organization, substantially funded
by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Google News Initiative,
the Open Society Foundation for South Africa, the IFCN, the Omidyar
Network, the Department of State, and earned income through Facebook.
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/10 Another email shows the IFCN soliciting the GEC to do additional
programming in Egypt (and presumably with additional American taxpayer
funding).
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/11 When threatened, they join together to protect their mutual interests.
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/12 On the other hand, they exclude other media organizations with
whom they disagree…keep reading.
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/13 For example David Mikkelson of @snopes attempted to discredit the
@DailyCaller to kick them out of their Google Groups on “Combating
Fake News: The Science of Misinformation,” even though another member
raised the point that Daily Caller had the same “source-credibility”…
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/14 The work of the international fact-checking cartel might be
admirable if it actually lived up to its “commitment to
Non-partisanship and Fairness,” but their methods appear strongly
biased towards the promotion of State-approved talking points.
ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter…
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/15 For example, a professional fact-checker at PolitiFact, which is
operated by the Poynter Institute, appeared to rely on the GEC to
debunk a “claim [that] stems from the letter that GOP senators wrote
to the Biden Administration,” even though the GEC was under the Biden
Admin.
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/16 Next, we further uncovered that news outlets that had been
formerly respected for critical investigative journalism are now mere
mouthpieces for state media, and their journalists are eagerly willing
to spread propaganda on behalf of the GEC.
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/17 @washingtonpost readily jumped into the conversation to discredit
the @nypost reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
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/18 On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published the now-infamous
story based on a laptop detailing how Hunter Biden used the position
and influence of his father for personal gain and with the apparent
awareness of now-President Biden…
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/19 On the same day, Ellen Nakashima, a national security reporter
with the Washington Post “covering election security,” reached out to
the GEC requesting a call on “more declassified Russian
disinformation.”
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/20 October 15, 2020, Ellen Nakashima published an article stating,
“The Washington Post was unable to verify the authenticity of the
alleged communications,” while alluding to the likelihood that the
Hunter Biden story was the product of a “Russian intelligence
operation.”
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/21 On October 16, 2020, Ellen Nakashima sent another email to the GEC
to inquire about “upcoming releases by the GEC.”
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/22 On October 21, 2020, less than two weeks before election day,
Ellen Nakashima published an article in the Washington Post sounding
the alarm on “Russian interference” in the 2020 election cycle.
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/23 Nakashima also highlighted numerous federal agency lines of effort
to combat “Russian interference,” including the GEC’s August 2020
report exposing websites and organizations as Russian sites spreading
disinformation.
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May 24
/24 The GEC report referenced in Ellen Nakashima’s article, however,
turned out to be “contradictory” according to @mtaibbi in Twitter
Files #17, which detailed how the GEC would send Twitter lists of
hundreds of accounts it suspected to be “foreign” disinformation…
Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi
Mar 2
Replying to @mtaibbi
17.This GEC report was contradictory. On one hand, it offered reasoned
evidence that a specific outlet like the “Strategic Culture
Foundation” was partnered with the Russian Foreign Ministry, which
would make it a true "proxy site."
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/25 …even though the lists “included multiple Western government
accounts and at least three CNN employees based abroad.”
Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi
Mar 2
Replying to @mtaibbi
15. GEC’s “Chinese” list included multiple Western government accounts
and at least three CNN employees based abroad. “Not exactly Anderson’s
besties, but CNN assets if you will,” quipped Twitter’s Patrick
Conlon. "A total crock,” added Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth.
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May 24
/26 Mainstream media outlets eagerly rely on the GEC as an
authoritative source based on its credibility and presumed access to
accurate intelligence.
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/27 As the fact-check by PolitiFact above demonstrates, however, this
presents the risk that critical investigative journalists become
nothing more than state media mouthpieces…
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May 24
/28 On January 19, 2021, one day before the Biden Adm officially
began, a Global Engagement Center Public Affairs Officer attempted to
enlist Michael Gordon of the @WSJ to publish a story promoting the
GEC’s talking points on Russian disinformation and COVID-19 vaccines.
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/29 Meanwhile, on February 2, 2021, New York Times reporter Julian
Barnes obtains an introduction to the GEC through his National
Security Agency (NSA) contact for his story on “Russian anti-vax
disinformation.”
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/30 On February 4, 2021, with another potential outlet seemingly
interested in writing a story on the topic of interest, the GEC shared
its talking points with the @nytimes
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/31 By February 12, 2021, the GEC Deputy Spokesperson, J.T. Ice,
warned Michael Gordon that it will pitch the story to another outlet
if the @WSJ didn’t publish the story “imminently.”
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/1🚨BREAKING — America First Legal released documents obtained from a
FOIA lawsuit against the Department of State, exposing how the Global
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Well it looks like the "fact-checkers" were looking more at the CHECKS
and less at the FACTS, according to @America1stLegal. @iandprior
joined @EmeraldRobinson to discuss who was really paying them off to
push the Biden regime's narrative. WATCH:
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Thanks @elonmusk! dailycaller.com/2023/05/25/e…
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What we uncovered will shock you… Read about it here:
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Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber
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This is the same DHS program — called “CP3” — that @America1stLegal
and @FFO_Freedom broke earlier this month plotter a snitch program
against “Middle Aged Pro-Life Mothers” and “Old High School Friends”
becoming “Budding Conspiracy Theorists.”
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Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber
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This is the same DHS program — called “CP3” — that @America1stLegal
and @FFO_Freedom broke earlier this month plotter a snitch program
against “Middle Aged Pro-Life Mothers” and “Old High School Friends”
becoming “Budding Conspiracy Theorists.”
Heritage Foundation @Heritage
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1/🚨EXPOSED: @theMRC has uncovered a DHS anti-terrorism program that's
been weaponized against conservatives. 80 grants & 39.6 million
taxpayer dollars later, here's a look at how @JoeBiden & @SecMayorkas
are outsourcing their efforts to conflate conservatives with
terrorists🧵
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Elon Musk @elonmusk
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“Total crock”
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Elon Musk @elonmusk
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This is indeed very disturbing
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Elon Musk @elonmusk
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What say you, @snopes?
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Elon Musk @elonmusk
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Major problem
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Elon Musk @elonmusk
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How did The Washington Post go from questioning the state to being its
mouthpiece?
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/1🚨BREAKING — America First Legal released documents obtained from a
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organizations. Disturbing thread below ⤵️
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When companies make targeted racial composition goals for their
employees, they have to engage in discrimination to achieve their
goals, whether they admit it or not. Worst kept secret in corporate HR
departments across the country… eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-…
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Replying to @America1stLegal
/5 Since its announcement in 2021, Alaska Air has openly and proudly
displayed on its website the progress it has made in using illegal
hiring, training, and promotion preferences to fulfill its racial
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Big Tech is laying off Americans and replacing them with foreign H-1B
workers. Microsoft is just one of those companies allegedly doing this
and AFL is looking to investigate. @America1stLegal's John Zadrozny
joins @EmeraldRobinson to discuss their investigation.
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Mollie @MZHemingway
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Look what I found: America First Legal Lawsuit Against the Department
of State Obtains Documents from the Global Engagement Center Exposing
How “Private” Media Organizations Carry Out State Propaganda
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America First Legal Lawsuit Against the Department of State Obtains
Documents from the Global...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) released document
productions (1, 2, and 3) obtained from a Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of State exposing how...
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Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber
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This is an excellent deep dive & document dump on the State Dept’s
“censorship laundering” apparatus:
America First Legal @America1stLegal
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/1🚨BREAKING — America First Legal released documents obtained from a
FOIA lawsuit against the Department of State, exposing how the Global
Engagement Center carries out state propaganda through private media
organizations. Disturbing thread below ⤵️
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AFL attorney Michael Ding joined @SebGorka to discuss the shocking
documents we obtained in litigation against the Department of State.
Explosive thread below… 👀
America First Legal @America1stLegal
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/1🚨BREAKING — America First Legal released documents obtained from a
FOIA lawsuit against the Department of State, exposing how the Global
Engagement Center carries out state propaganda through private media
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/8 AFL has separately asked the President, Chief Executive Officer,
and Director, Ben Minicucci, to immediately cease and desist all
employment practices that discriminate based on race, color, sex, or
national origin.
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/9 The odious and illegal practice of hiring based on immutable
characteristics like race is a flagrant attack on civil rights that
harms all Americans. America First Legal is taking action:
aflegal.org/america-first-le…
America First Legal Files Federal Civil Rights Complaint Against
Alaska Airlines for Unlawful and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, as part of its initiative under the Center
for Legal Equality, America First Legal (AFL) asked the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to open a civil rights...
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