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State Department Paid Germans To Bring Censorship And Propaganda To U.S. Schools
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In Germany, tech platforms are punished with steep fines for not censoring users' content, and those who opposed the censorship measures were placed under government surveillance. Those efforts have been "horrifyingly effective" in Germany, and the U.S. State Department is now importing Europe's most Orwellian techniques directly from the source, MRC said.
American teachers were, in turn, paid to transform what they learned at the State Department sessions into lesson plans for children. For example, April Leach, a Florida schoolteacher, attended the sessions and used what she heard to create a "social emotional learning" lesson plan that promoted Ad Fontes. A left-wing foundation paid her $8,000 through an "SEL in Action Award," according to the MRC report.
Another attendee, a Washington State educator named Lauren McClanahan, illustrated the circular nature of the disinformation ecosystem. She attended the State Department seminar, and then created a curriculum that relied on NCTE's call to pursue social justice instead of reading and writing to justify having students create "public service announcements (PSAs) about a social justice topic."
The videos featured children pleading with people to donate to leftist groups like Everytown for Gun Safety, whose subsidiary is a Rhode Island Lab "partner," MRC found. McClanahan was named an "affiliated faculty" of the Lab.
The documents obtained under FOIA by the Media Research Center show how Hobbs, the Lab's founder, often blurs the line between "media literary" and progressive politics that has nothing to do with disinformation. Her groups' final report on the training sessions boasts that she used the State Department seminar to bring "media literary" to Austin, Texas's police academy. That included making sure videos didn't promote stereotypes and warning them not to raise an American flag for slain police officers because it might be offensive, MRC said.
Furlong and Hobbs did not return requests for comment.
MRC said that parents should ask their school board if Ad Fontes or NewsGuard are used in their schools, state legislatures must ban them from receiving funding, and attorneys general should investigate whether "activist" groups pushing "disinformation" laws are receiving kickbacks from censorship firms who would stand to profit off of such laws.
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In Germany, tech platforms are punished with steep fines for not censoring users' content, and those who opposed the censorship measures were placed under government surveillance. Those efforts have been "horrifyingly effective" in Germany, and the U.S. State Department is now importing Europe's most Orwellian techniques directly from the source, MRC said.
American teachers were, in turn, paid to transform what they learned at the State Department sessions into lesson plans for children. For example, April Leach, a Florida schoolteacher, attended the sessions and used what she heard to create a "social emotional learning" lesson plan that promoted Ad Fontes. A left-wing foundation paid her $8,000 through an "SEL in Action Award," according to the MRC report.
Another attendee, a Washington State educator named Lauren McClanahan, illustrated the circular nature of the disinformation ecosystem. She attended the State Department seminar, and then created a curriculum that relied on NCTE's call to pursue social justice instead of reading and writing to justify having students create "public service announcements (PSAs) about a social justice topic."
The videos featured children pleading with people to donate to leftist groups like Everytown for Gun Safety, whose subsidiary is a Rhode Island Lab "partner," MRC found. McClanahan was named an "affiliated faculty" of the Lab.
The documents obtained under FOIA by the Media Research Center show how Hobbs, the Lab's founder, often blurs the line between "media literary" and progressive politics that has nothing to do with disinformation. Her groups' final report on the training sessions boasts that she used the State Department seminar to bring "media literary" to Austin, Texas's police academy. That included making sure videos didn't promote stereotypes and warning them not to raise an American flag for slain police officers because it might be offensive, MRC said.
Furlong and Hobbs did not return requests for comment.
MRC said that parents should ask their school board if Ad Fontes or NewsGuard are used in their schools, state legislatures must ban them from receiving funding, and attorneys general should investigate whether "activist" groups pushing "disinformation" laws are receiving kickbacks from censorship firms who would stand to profit off of such laws.
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