The fallout and aftermath of Elon Musk’s investigation into USAID as a part of President Trump’s radical revolution in his second-term in workplace, has revealed gorgeous studies of presidency funding for far-left efforts and wasteful efforts. Musk has mentioned that Trump has approved him to look into the Department of Education, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and explosively, the Pentagon.
Wikileaks is now claiming that one other a part of the far-left USAID funding has been influencing international and home media with practically half-a-billion {dollars} in U.S. taxpayer funding for the “Internews Community”, a non-profit funded primarily by the federal government that skilled journalists, pushed sure information and agenda that match the federal government’s needs, and likewise that the community developed “exclusion lists” that had been meant to strain advertisers to bankrupt different media shops that didn’t serve the federal government’s agenda.
The U.S. authorities was additionally pushing such ‘exclusion lists’ by quite a lot of different state-supported organizations and entities, such because the Stanford Web Observatory, the College of Washington, Yale, Newsguard, and by coercing huge tech firms like Fb, Amazon, and Google. This was all a part of the left’s Censorship Industrial Complicated.
The Gateway Pundit is litigating against the government at the moment in Missouri v. Biden on associated points about censorship, deplatforming, and demonetization.
Internews supported and funded these censorship efforts.
USAID-Funded Internews CEO Jeanne Bourgault pushes for international promoting “exclusion checklist” to censor “disinformation” on the World Financial Discussion board.
Like what they did to ?
“Disinformation makes cash. We have to observe that cash. We have to work with the worldwide promoting… pic.twitter.com/37AUwQ8tiI
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 8, 2025
A reported 75% of the funding for Internews Community got here immediately from USAID. That funding allowed them to work with a reported 4,291 media shops.
This community, financed virtually fully by the U.S. authorities, was energetic in 30 nations and dealing with over 9,000 journalists.
Google Maps reveals that the official principal workplace for Internews has been deserted, suggesting that some attainable diploma of fraud has been underway.
That is the primary main fraud I believe has been uncovered from scrutiny of USAID.
– USAID has funneled $472.6 million by Internews Community (IN).
– IN has labored with 4,291 media shops, producing 4,799 hours of broadcasts.
– Reached as much as 778 million individuals.
– Skilled… pic.twitter.com/Y3sqBFj85L
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) February 8, 2025
The President of Internews, Jeanne Bourgault, has put her social media accounts, including her LinkedIn account, into lock-down. The Internews web site has been scrubbed, although it’s still active at the Archive.org “Wayback Machine.” Her prior work was solely with USAID and affiliated organizations. She was being paid practically a half million {dollars} per 12 months and has been with the group for over 24 years.
A few of her connections are tied to Reddit administration and at different high-profile and influential media firms.
Internews has additionally been linked to funding from highly effective left-wing billionaire George Soros.
Individually it not too long ago got here out that Politico was receiving $8 million per 12 months from the federal government, although the far-left DC-based information outlet claims it was for high-priced specialty plans that had been being bought for $10,000 per 12 months to high-level authorities officers to ‘observe laws.’
Internews was all being operated out of an workplace that had clearly been deserted for years.
USAID has pushed practically half a billion {dollars} ($472.6m) by a secretive US authorities financed NGO, “Internews Community” (IN), which has “labored with” 4,291 media shops, producing in a single 12 months 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching as much as 778 million individuals and “coaching” over…
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 8, 2025
On-line many are alleging connections between USAID, Internews, and the U.S. intelligence community. Particularly referencing the alleged controversial “Operation Mockingbird” the place U.S. intelligence figures sought to position influential undercover brokers, and develop positioned brokers inside, each main media outlet on the earth as a strategy to mission the U.S. agenda and energy globally.
