Covid has made me believe almost nothing the Government says today!
By Fred Lucas ~
A State Department agency with a mission of combating disinformation abroad has helped shape coverage by—and in some cases subsidized—U.S. news outlets, according to records obtained by a conservative legal organization.
Documents obtained in a public records lawsuit show that the State Department’s Global Engagement Center worked with privately owned media organizations to tout government propaganda, America First Legal says. (Photo: Getty Images)
America First Legal says that over 600 pages of documents obtained in a public records lawsuit show the State Department’s Global Engagement Center worked with privately owned media organizations to tout government propaganda.
Among those named in the documents are The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, and PolitiFact.
PolitiFact’s parent organization, The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a journalism group, also is shown to be heavily reliant on the State Department’s Global Engagement…
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