National Endowment for Democracy Ends Funding to Soros Backed Global Disinformation Index – IOTW Report

National Endowment for Democracy Ends Funding to Soros Backed Global Disinformation Index

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Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a group funded by George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, has lost financial support from National Endowment for Democracy (NED) for its role in demonetizing conservative news outlets, Breitbart News exclusively learned Monday.

“[G]iven our commitment to avoid the perception that NED is engaged in any work domestically, directly or indirectly, we no longer provide financial support to GDI,” Damon Wilson, CEO of NED, told Breitbart News in a statement. Continues

According to Wikipedia

The NED receives an annual appropriation from the U.S. budget (it is included in the chapter of the Department of State budget destined for the U.S. Agency for International Development-USAID) and is subject to congressional oversight even as a non-governmental organization.[22]

From 1984 to 1990 the NED received $15–18 million of congressional funding annually, and $25–30 million from 1991 to 1993. At the time the funding came via the United States Information Agency. In 1993 the NED nearly lost its congressional funding, after the House of Representatives initially voted to abolish its funding. The funding (of $35 million, a rise from $30 million the year before) was only retained after a vigorous campaign by NED supporters.[23]

In the financial year to the end of September 2009 NED had an income of $135.5 million, nearly all of which came from U.S Government agencies.[22] In addition to government funding, the NED has received funding from foundations, such as the Smith Richardson Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, and others. The Bradley Foundation supported the Journal of Democracy with $1.5 million during 1990–2008.[24]

In 2018, President Donald Trump proposed to slash the NED’s funding and cut its links to the Democratic and Republican Institutes.[25][26]

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