In a shocking revelation, WikiLeaks has exposed how the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has funneled over half a billion dollars into a shadowy non-governmental organization responsible for operating a global news propaganda matrix designed to control the global narrative.
While propping up far-left corporate media outlets like Politico and the BBC with taxpayer money, USAID has been secretly funding “Internews Network,” an NGO operating behind the scenes to shape narratives and push the globalist agenda worldwide.
SAID 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).
Not suspicious at all!
This massive influx of taxpayer money has primarily targeted conservative media outlets across the globe, all while being sold to the public as part of a mission to “save democracy.”
IN’s complex funding graph:
The bio for IN CEO Jeanne Bourgault shows her previous jobs at Wired, The Guardian, and other far-left media outlets.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum’s Davos summit last year, IN’s CEO argued that global advertisers should prioritize spending ad dollars on “good news.”
In other words, this would pressure companies to spend exclusively on far-left corporate media outlets while ensuring they slash ad spending on alternative media websites that do not promote globalist propaganda.
In other words, American taxpayers have been funding the global censorship matrix that is responsible for lying about wars, Covid origins, vaccines, and countless other conspiracies against humanity.
How does it feel to know that your tax dollars are funding a globalist propaganda thought-control matrix around the world?