By Greg Piper (Just the News)
As the Trump administration battles the courts to gut the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the shuttered Global Engagement Center reconstitutes itself like a Terminator into a purportedly foreign-only “hub” to counter manipulation and interference, newly released public records detail the extent of their past efforts to police speech.
America First Legal, founded by two-time Trump White House aide Stephen Miller, posted 210 pages of new receipts Thursday from the group’s two-year Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department, which last year revealed USAID’s “Disinformation Primer” that spanned the end of President Trump’s first term and at least President Biden’s early term.
They document “a massive government-backed censorship operation” by USAID, “censorship nerve center” GEC, the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and media watchdogs NewsGuard and Poynter “under the guise” of policing mis-, dis- and mal-information, sometimes jeered as “true but inconvenient,” AFL said in a lengthy X thread on the revelations.