Report: Biden Turns to Foreign Propagandists to Censor U.S. Schools

State Department delivered funding for 'training'

The Biden administration's censorship schemes, especially those intended to suppress information it dislikes in schools, have been aided by German propagandists, according to a new report.

The Federalist is revealing that a search of documents obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act show Joe Biden's State Department funded training for hundreds of teachers "created mostly by German 'disinformation' activists."

The documents, sought by the Media Research Center, were shared with the Daily Wire.

The Federalist reported, "The 'Medialogues on Propaganda,' which featured 11 online training meetings between June 2021 and April 2022 and was attended by some 700 teachers, was funded by a grant from the U.S. Embassy in Berlin."

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The Daily Wire's report explained, "The intent was to train teachers to 'inoculate' students against disinformation that train them in 'media literacy.' 

The State Department sessions were used by its activist organizers to promote products from their for-profit 'partner,' Ad Fontes, as well as NewsGuard."

Newsguard is a far-left organization that purports to "rate" news sites, but in practice simply promotes leftist ideologies and condemns any with which it disagrees.

The Federalist said, "Ad Fontes is a for-profit firm founded in 2018 that advises advertisers, online platforms, and educators about which websites to either boycott or censor. 

While the company claims to be impartial, its recommendations show otherwise by disproportionately targeting conservative media as outlets for clients to avoid."

And it called NewsGuard" a "'disinformation' group backed by federal grant money."

It, in fact, has left "perfect" ratings for news publications that misrepresented the Hunter Biden laptop evidence.

Federal money going to that partisan group is the subject of a lawsuit being pursued by The Federalist and others.

"The State Department did not respond to The Federalist’s repeated inquiries about why the agency did not shut down the propagandist trainings by German censors," the Federalist charged.

But the "training" sessions reportedly were run by Germany’s University of Würzburg’s Media Education & Educational Technology Lab and the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab with Media Literacy Now.

The report said University of Rhode Island Communications Professor Renee Hobbs "is an MLN advisory board member and the founder of the Rhode Island Lab. 

According to the Daily Wire, Hobbs previously pressed for $60 million in subsidies for 'anti-disinformation work like hers — legislation whose momentum rested on the idea that Russians caused Trump to win in 2016, itself a conspiracy.'"

It was the Wire that charged, 

"When asked why the State Department could fund a propaganda seminar aimed at Americans, the State Department told The Daily Wire that with its $30,000 grant to Media Literacy Now, 'the U.S. Embassy in Germany supported the participation of German participants in the media literacy program you are inquiring about.'"