The partnership with The Poynter Institute was not the extent of the Biden administration’s financial entanglement with censorship outfitters masquerading as “fact checkers.” Through the State Department and the National Science Foundation (NSF…

In addition to lavishing funds on censorship outfits, the Biden administration also labored to put their weapons of mass deletion into American classrooms. 

The Biden administration labored to build more public, international support for censorship by producing elaborate propaganda pieces rebranding the silencing of others as “media literacy” or “resilient media.” This work necessitated frequent,…

In the final weeks of the Biden administration, the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Science & Technology (NIST) rushed to funnel even more money into censorship. 

In addition to its work with so-called media literacy firms, the Biden administration also partnered with a variety of other tech-based censorship outfits to silence criticism of its COVID-19 policies. For example, in 2022 alone, the National…

The NIAID censorship payments from Initiative #19 followed revelations of direct actions that the Biden administration had taken to silence critics of its COVID-19 policies.