WATCH: Ingraham Angle touts ‘fantastic’ Washington Examiner report on State Dept. censorship
Heather Hamilton
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Washington Examiner investigative reporter Gabe Kaminsky was commended on The Ingraham Angle for his work to uncover the “Global Disinformation Index,” a government-funded entity that uses taxpayer dollars to censor conservative news outlets.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham and guest Miranda Devine, a New York Post columnist, called Kaminsky’s recent reporting for the Washington Examiner “fantastic.”
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“Our series in the Washington Examiner, “Disinformation inc.,” has unpacked how the United States government, specifically the State Department, has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars through the Global Engagement Center as well as the National Endowment for Democracy, which is heavily backed by the State Department, to an entity called the Global Disinformation Index, which is secretly compiling black lists of conservative media outlets and feeding those to advertising companies with the intent of defunding and shutting down the free and independent press,” Kaminsky explained.
“Our series has essentially linked taxpayer dollars to efforts to target the First Amendment,” he added.
Devine praised Kaminsky’s reporting, saying it was “fantastic reporting by Gabe and the Examiner.”
“It’s just seeing that the State Department, the government, is suppressing dissent, spending money on doing that,” Devine said. “And doing it in the guise of stamping out disinformation. Disinformation is whatever the government decides it is, and that is dissent. Really it’s dissent — anything that does not go along and parrot the Democratic establishment line is disinformation.”
“And it’s ironic considering that the biggest disinformation that’s come out of the media in recent history has been the Russia collusion hoax, and not one of those media outlets appears on this list,” Devine added, noting that the New York Post in included on the list, however, after it published a story exposing Hunter Biden’s laptop.
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The National Endowment for Democracy told Ingraham in a statement that the Global Disinformation Index has “very narrowly focused on an initiative to identify and combat the disinformation flowing from authoritarian regimes, particularly China.”
Kaminsky noted that taxpayer dollars are not exclusively used to combat overseas entities but that the Global Disinformation Index includes domestic outlets, including conservative news organizations.