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Stopping Censorship and Pentagon’s Contracts with Media Firms

The House is set to send a strong message to the Pentagon regarding its collusion with leftist media ratings firms like NewsGuard: Enough is enough.

House Republicans introduced H.R. 8774 on Thursday, a Defense appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2025, which contains language that bars the Pentagon from using taxpayer funds for contracts with so-called media ratings firms like Ad Fontes and NewsGuard.

Led by House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairman Ken Calvert (R-CA), this bill, which is aimed at stopping censorship, is a response to the baffling $750,000 contract between the Department of Defense and NewsGuard.

Section 8159 specifies: “None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be made available to NewsGuard Technologies Inc.”

Moreover, Section 8147 prevents the Pentagon from labeling communications by American…

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