week you sent a letter to the Secretary
of State Anthony blinken on this topic
and it was actually a subject matter in
last week's hearing before the select
subcommittee I want to play a clip of
Matt taibi and what he had to say over
the weekend about this kind of network
of entities that are out there that you
are pressing in on play clip number four
please as time went on we learned that
actually there's a whole complex of
organizations and ngos a lot of them are
state-funded some of them are entirely
state-funded that are sending huge lists
of names to these companies and and
those are that's the primary route by
which people are taken off uh places
like Twitter or Facebook or any social
media site the state department is
funding one of these entities you're
trying to find out more tell us about it
well I sent a letter to Anthony blinken
last Thursday asking him to explain why
the state department was sending
hundreds of thousands of dollars to the
global disinformation index
uh Tony the even the name is orwellian
to think that someone uh is out there
deciding what true speech is and what
fall speech is and we don't trust
Americans to be able to discern the the
truth from uh false speech uh it is just
really scary but the state department is
funding this organization so are other
entities in government and we're looking
at those entities also to try to ask for
similar information but basically I just
sent a letter asking the state
department how many different units in
the state department are funding this
organization how much money are they
spending and why why are they doing this