The state of Texas, alongside two conservative media outlets, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department for allegedly funding private censorship efforts to suppress certain media outlets.
Conservative media outlets The Federalist and The Daily Wire joined Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in filing a lawsuit against the Department of State’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), which the plaintiffs argue actively intervenes in the “news-media market to render disfavored press outlets unprofitable.”
The complaint accuses the GEC of funding “private censorship enterprises to covertly suppress [the] speech of a segment of American press.” Additionally, the plaintiffs argue, “Defendant GEC has funded, promoted, and/or marketed two American censorship enterprises: the Disinformation Index Inc., operating under the name Global Disinformation Index (GDI), and NewsGuard Technologies, Inc. (‘NewsGuard’).”
The federally-funded Global Disinformation Index’s clearly stated mission is to “disrupt the business model of disinformation,” while…
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