A trove of new documents have revealed the full scope of the government-backed censorship that has been crushing free speech – and it’s horrifying.
The documents were obtained by America First Legal (AFL) through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit and they paint a picture of how the United States government and the United Kingdom government partnered together to form a censorship BEHEMOTH.
Under the guise of combatting “misinformation” and “disinformation,” these governments weaponized several powerful agencies believed to be secretly linked to their respective intelligence agencies (CIA and MI6) to power their censorship machine.
This list of agencies included names like the Global Engagement Center (GEC), the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the British Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), along with various private media monitoring organizations who partnered with them.
The GEC, a subagency of the US State Department, was initially established to “counteract foreign disinformation” but ultimately became a blatant peddler of state-sponsored propaganda.
According to America First Legal, the GEC, before being forced to shut down in 2024, was responsible for selecting the “official” narrative and then handing this information over to their supposedly “private” media partners for them to spread it globally.
One of the more disturbing revelations to come from the documents obtained by AFL was that the GEC and USAID coordinated on a campaign to control the narrative surrounding COVID-19.
Emails between the two US agencies reveal that the GEC sought to maintain “dialogue and connectivity” with USAID to “counter” what they claimed was “misinformation” about the pandemic.
This campaign saw the agencies focus HEAVILY on “Disinformation and COVID-19 related products” – which included controlling the conversation surrounding the experimental injections which we now know are one of the most dangerous series of vaccines EVER released on the public.
And don’t be fooled this wasn’t about “health and safety.” These agencies were also using sophisticated risk analysis programs like one named “KHARON” to monitor how certain narratives would potentially impact domestic and foreign elections…
Another equally disturbing discovery in the documents is that following the (rigged) 2020 election, these agencies partnered with private news organizations SPECIFICALLY to censor any dissenting narratives that questioned whether or not President Joe Biden really did get the most votes in history or not.
“Private” organizations like NewsGuard and Poynter, two media rating firms engaged in digital censorship, reached out to government officials, offering their services in identifying and combating online “misinformation.”
Poynter was a group who basically managed the entire fact-checking industry and they pretended to be private but they never were. The entire thing was being run by the US government in order to help arbitrarily label things as “fact” or “fiction.”
At the same time, Park Advisors, a firm led by a former president Barack Obama State Department official was handed millions of dollars by GEC, who then funneled the money to companies like Newsguard, the Atlantic Council and the Global Disinformation Index. GDI was selected because they specialize in blackballing conservative news sites. GDI convinced multiple conservative news site advertisers to stop supporting them if they didn’t say exactly what the government wanted them to say (not us).
These supposedly “private” organizations who were being bankrolled by the US gov. helped develop the “Disinfo Cloud,” a censorship apparatus used by the US to counter so-called adversarial narratives.
Once they had this apparatus in place, they shared it with other countries and in some cases forced them to use it to censor their citizens while in other cases, the power-loving government officials were more than happy to have this sort of thing at their disposal.
The only caveat to this free tool was that they had to abide by the US’ “official” narrative. This meant no questioning the COVID vaccine’s safety and no questioning Joe Biden’s legitimacy as president.
Britain was one of those countries who was more than happy to have the censorship tool, and their FCDO happily partnered with the GEC and USAID to contribute however they could to make it a more effective censorship weapon, all while pretending to be fighting “misinformation.”
This tangled web of government agencies using taxpayer dollars to fuel a global censorship ring is incredibly alarming, but you might be wondering why any of it matters considering the dissolution of GEC in December 2024.
And the reason for that is very simple. With corrupt judges giving everything they have to protect USAID this terrifying censorship behemoth is NOT DEAD – not even close.
As long as USAID still exists, they still have the framework and the relationships to spin up this machine yet again. What do you think will happen when the Democrats get back into power?