The Daily Wire, The Federalist, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday asked a federal court in Texas to grant an injunction barring the State Department from funding efforts to delegitimize domestic media outlets, as their lawsuit against the government winds its way through the courts.
The trio “seek a preliminary injunction to halt one of the most egregious government operations to abridge Americans’ speech and the American press in the history of the nation,” the motion, first reported by the Washington Examiner, states.
“The U.S. Department of State, through its Global Engagement Center (GEC), is actively intervening in the news-media market to limit the reach of, the circulation of, and render unprofitable, disfavored press outlets by funding the infrastructure, development, and marketing and promotion of censorship technology and private censorship enterprises…
