Recent revelations uncover how nearly half a billion taxpayer dollars were funneled through USAID to influence media via the controversial NGO Internews Network, raising questions about transparency and accountability in government funding.
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USAID has pushed nearly half a billion dollars ($472.6m) through a secretive US government financed NGO, "Internews Network" (IN), which has “worked with” 4,291 media outlets, producing in one year 4,799 hours of broadcasts reaching up to 778 million people and "training” over 9000 journalists (2023 figures). IN has also supported social media censorship initiatives.
The operation claims “offices” in over 30 countries, including main offices in US, London, Paris and regional HQs in Kiev, Bangkok and Nairobi. It is headed up by Jeanne Bourgault, who pays herself $451k a year. Bourgault worked out of the US embassy in Moscow during the early 1990s, where she was in charge of a $250m budget, and in other revolts or conflicts at critical times, before formally rotating out of six years at USAID to IN.
Bourgault’s IN bio and those of its other key people and board members have been recently scrubbed from its website but remain accessible at
http://archive.org. Records show the board being co-chaired by Democrat securocrat Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, wife of NVIDIA billionaire Trench Coxe, both major Democratic donors. In 2023, supported by Hillary Clinton, Bourgault launched a $10m IN fund at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). The IN page showing a picture of Bourgault at the CGI has also been deleted.
IN has at least six captive subsidiaries under unrelated names including one based out of the Cayman Islands. Since 2008, when electronic records begin, more than 95% of IN's budget has been supplied by the US government (thread follows)
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This is the first major fraud I think has been uncovered from scrutiny of USAID.
- USAID has funneled $472.6 million through Internews Network (IN).
- IN has worked with 4,291 media outlets, producing 4,799 hours of broadcasts.
- Reached up to 778 million people.
- Trained over 9,000 journalists.
- Supported social media censorship initiatives.
- Offices in over 30 countries, main hubs in US, London, Paris, Kiev, Bangkok, Nairobi.
- Led by Jeanne Bourgault, with a salary of $451k/year.
- Board co-chaired by Richard J. Kessler and Simone Otus Coxe, Democratic donors.
- Launched a $10M fund at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2023.
- Operates at least 6 subsidiaries, one in the Cayman Islands.
- Over 95% of IN's budget since 2008 from the US government.
- Main billing location is an abandoned building in California
- Obvious money-grab and probably doing spook bidding for a long time.
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USAID-Funded Internews CEO Jeanne Bourgault pushes for global advertising “exclusion list” to censor “disinformation” at the World Economic Forum.
Like what they did to 𝕏?
"Disinformation makes money. We need to follow that money. We need to work with the global advertising industry because a lot of those dollars go to pretty bad content, and so you can work really hard on exclusion lists or inclusion lists and really try to challenge the global advertising industry to focus their ad dollars towards the good news."
Notably, Bourgault’s call for global ad boycotts coincided with a widespread advertising boycott targeting Elon Musk’s 𝕏, which has been at the forefront of defending free speech online.
USAID has funneled $472 million to Internews and $68 million to the WEF, where both groups collaborate on censoring the internet.
Is this a good use of American taxpayer funds?
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