WMAL host Chris Plante highlighted a recent MRC Study exposing how the federal government is using taxpayer money from the Department of Homeland Security’s domestic terrorist prevention program to target conservatives.
MRC released a report Wednesday exposing how the DHS awarded $700,000 in grant money to the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”) to promote leftist propaganda. Using the grant, the university then trained teachers to use censorship tools to silence right-leaning political dissent in their classrooms. In addition, the grant was engineered to pay activists to write blog content promoting left-wing propaganda. It even paid students up to $1,000 to make social media posts promoting the “media literacy.” Plante called the exposé “pretty extraordinary and terrible and horrifying” during the…
