The U.S. State Department has announced sanctions against a number of individuals including the head of UK-based Global Disinformation Index (GDI) Clare Melford, whose organization issued a report this summer listing “digital denialism” of Canadian residential schools as one example of “hate speech” that harms democracy.
Under Secretary of State Sarah Rogers, in an X post on Dec. 23, linked to a September GDI report on hate speech in Canada in her announcement of Melford’s travel ban, saying that GDI has interfered with speech on American platforms, including by labelling opinions that “question” the nature of Canadian residential schools as hate speech.
