Think Tank Funded by U.S. And Foreign Governments Calls for Suppression of Breitbart, Fox, Conservative Media
The German Marshall Fund (GMF), founded by the state of Germany to promote deeper ties between America and Europe — and funded in part by the U.S. government — has declared Breitbart News, Fox News, the Blaze, and the Federalist as “deceptive” news outlets. The GMF is calling for the suppression of these sites on social media.
The GMF claims to be a “non-partisan” organization. It relies on the opinions of NewsGuard, an unaccountable Microsoft-linked establishment project that purports to “rate” the validity of news sites.
The GMF report divides so-called “deceptive” news outlets into two tiers. “Manipulators,” which the GMF accuses of manipulating facts, and “false content producers,” which publish outright false articles.
These descriptions are used by the GMF to besmirch conservative news sources. The news sources defined as manipulators include; Breitbart News, Fox News, the Daily Wire, the Blaze, and Western Journal. News organizations defined as false content producers are; Federalist, World Net Daily, and black conservative radio host Wayne Dupree.
The GMF’S main complaint is that too many of these sites enjoy high levels of engagement on Facebook. It is their position that de-amplifying content from a handful of these dangerous sites could dramatically decrease disinformation online.
The GMF’s motives and objectives are so transparently in favor of widespread censorship of independent and conservative media and were so egregious that they were condemned by the Wall Street Journal editorial board.
“The German Marshall Fund (GMF) is an influential think tank based in Washington, D.C., named for U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall’s 1948 plan to help European countries resist Communism. What a shame that in 2020 the outfit is promoting political suppression of conservative news, with state media as a recommended replacement.
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Such outlets allegedly “pose a threat to informed democratic discourse.” Their content reaches readers because it is “often oppositional to ‘mainstream media’ and so-called elite or conventional wisdom.” The horror!
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The GMF report suggests “a new PBS of the Internet, funded by a fee on online ad revenue.” Critics sometimes refer sarcastically to pro-Trump independent outlets as “state media,” but liberals are promoting genuine state media.
Social media has had a disruptive effect on American institutions, for good and ill. But CEO Mark Zuckerberg was right to commit Facebook against political censorship in 2019. Unfortunately, he’s ceded ground since.”
For your edification, here is a list of the agencies using your money to support this organization, who wants to censor what you may read. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is listed as a major funder of the organization, contributing “$1 million and above.” The U.S. State Department, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. embassies of Belgium, France, and the U.S. missions to NATO and the European Union are all listed as donors. Of further interest may be other well known donors; Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Microsoft, Google, Bank of America, JP Morgan, ExxonMobil, and the Open Society Foundations, the infamous funding network founded by George Soros.
The bottom line is U.S. federal agencies are funding an organization that is a) backed by George Soros, b) backed by Big Tech, and c) is promoting the suppression of conservative media on the internet.
An interesting fact is FakeBook does not contribute to the GMF, yet are the GMF’S prime target.
FakeBook has been slowly, but surely, censoring content. Zuckerberg lives in fear of losing favor with his progressive friends. If some of the listed corporations bring the slightest pressure, he will go further.