US Government Funds Group Seeking to Blacklist Conservative Media

The U.S. State Department in Washington on Sept. 12, 2012. Alex Wong/Getty Images

U.S. taxpayer funds have been funneled to a British group that wants to block money from conservative media outlets.

State Department-backed entities have funded the London-based Global Disinformation Index (GDI) with the aim of “defunding disinformation.”