The GEC funded the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a foreign data-driven advocacy organization, which “created blacklists of U.S. domestic media voices to cripple U.S. citizen journalists’ advertising revenue,” according to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (TX), Foreign Affairs Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee Chair Brian Mast (FL), and GOP Reps. Chris Smith (FL), Darrell Issa (CA), Maria Salazar (FL), Keith Self (TX), Cory Mills (FL), and Ken Buck (CO).Specifically, the GDI created the Dynamic Exclusion List, which lists the likeliness of an outlet to be at risk of spreading disinformation. The GDI, which also receives funding from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, often labels right-wing outlets as being at risk of spreading disinformation.Federal government cannot scrap the First Amendment merely because they want to curb “disinformation” or “misinformation,” the Republicans argued.
The need for a new counter-disinformation agency was also questioned by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) has called into question the need for the FMIC, according to the Intercept. Warner expressed concerns in January 2022 it would duplicate existing agencies.According to the Intercept, there are at least four organizations the Department of Homeland Security to combat foreign “disinformation,” in addition to ones in the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), State Department and also, now, the Pentagon. The outlet detailed the Pentagon recently created the Influence and Perception Management Office to oversee its various counter-disinformation efforts, which was not publicly announced.The Intercept’s Ken Klippenstein noted:
That foreign governments such as Russia spread lies as part of propaganda to advance their own interests is not in dispute. But the efforts to counter disinformation have now become a cottage industry that critics suggest has grown far out of proportion to the threat.
He also noted that last month, a Pentagon-funded RAND Corporation report called for reducing “overattribution of disinformation on social media to Russia.”
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