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2025-02-09 Government Corruption
USAID Funded Massive 'News' Platform, Extending 'Censorship Industrial Complex' To Billions Worldwide
[ZeroHedge] In addition to propping up far-left corporate media outlets like Politico and the BBC with taxpayer funds, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has funneled half a billion dollars to a secretive non-governmental organization operating a global news propaganda matrix.

WikiLeaks published the bombshell report in the overnight hours that shows the massive taxpayer-funded state propaganda network - operating as a shady NGO - called "Internews Network":

USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has "worked with" 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training" over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.

The operation claims "offices" in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.

Bourgault's IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at http://archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.

IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows).
Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-09 08:05|| || Front Page|| [11149 views ]  Top

#1 Hopefully, the money flow has been stopped. The shocking headlines are all very nice, but if the cash spigot is still in the open position, we need to shut it now.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-09 11:01||   2025-02-09 11:01|| Front Page Top

#2 The Democrats have maneuvered themselves into a position where they loudly defend corruption.

Love it.
Posted by Lord Garth 2025-02-09 15:08||   2025-02-09 15:08|| Front Page Top

#3 ..and with continuing lawfare will be dragging it out to the midterms. :)
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-09 17:21||   2025-02-09 17:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Apparently, video game community too.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-02-09 20:35||   2025-02-09 20:35|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ A Warcraft Guild called Make Azeroth Great Again repeatedly gets their name suspended. The psychosis goes deep.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2025-02-09 22:02||   2025-02-09 22:02|| Front Page Top

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