A recent article in the Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO) highlighted a recent Department of Justice-funded grant program at Youngstown State University in Ohio, which targets groups including conservative Critic portala discussion board run by supporters of former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, Christians, and a wide range of communities on Telegram and Reddit.
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According to FFO, the Department of Justice-funded Youngstown State University project, called “A Framework Analysis of Violence and the Acceleration in Cognitive Extremism,” has received more than $440,000 in taxpayer funding from the Department of Justice for research that will include an existing data project led by Richard Lee Rogers, a U.S. Youngstown Government, “Frames of Disinformation, Extremism, and Conspiracy” (FOMEC).
Contributors to the big data-focused project acknowledge collecting tens of millions of posts from Americans, which they group under a wide range of general labels including “Christian radical right,” “QAnon,” “accelerationism,” and “extremism.” “.
According to FFO, the project received $449,897 in DOJ funding, and is part of the broader DOJ grant program on “Domestic Extremism and Violent Extremism” that has paid nearly $1.5 million in grants to the oversight industry.
The Justice Department-funded project places The Gateway Pundit among neo-Nazi groups.
Although Youngstown claims that its research focuses on “extremists,” the project's publications show that it combines conservatism and open-minded neo-Nazis. For example, the project's latest monthly report shows that Ron Paul's discussion board, as well as conservative news sites like World Net Daily and Gateway Pundit, are being monitored along with neo-Nazi sites Stormfront and Daily Stormer.
The FFO report continues, as Trump's movement and religious groups are also being targeted. One FOMEC-listed paper titled “Sources of COVID-19 Information and Misinformation by the Community of Faith,” written by Rogers himself, accuses Donald Trump of amplifying misinformation about COVID-19 and singling out faith communities, especially white evangelicals, and white non-evangelical Protestants. And non-Hispanic Catholics for spreading misinformation that originated with Trump. The Justice Department's funding of a project targeting religious groups could pose problems for the agency, given that the Justice Department's FBI was recently revealed to have targeted Catholics.
No prominent media outlet has been more censored for publishing information from Hunter Biden's laptop than The Gateway Pundit.
JustTheNews.com's John Solomon reported in October 2022 on the US government's official “enemies list” maintained by the Department of Homeland Security. The US government uses the list to Funding private organizations to harass, suppress, and suspend the First Amendment rights of American citizens.
The Gateway Pundit topped the list with an impressive lead that nearly doubled its nearest competitor with 46 “incidents” related to election integrity alongside 26 incidents by our friends at Breitbart.com.
This latest Department of Justice-funded report coincides with the free speech lawsuit in Missouri and Louisiana v. Biden that will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 18, 2024.
Gateway Pundit is suing the federal government along with the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, Covid experts Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University and Dr. Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University, the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, and two others for violating the First Amendment. rights.
On July 4, 2023, U.S. District Judge Terry Doty of Louisiana granted the Missouri-Louisiana plaintiffs' request for an injunction against the Biden regime's oversight machine, stating that “if the allegations made by the plaintiffs are true, the present case is arguably involves The largest attack against freedom of expression in the history of the United States. In its attempts to suppress alleged misinformation, the federal government, and particularly the defendants named here, allegedly blatantly ignored the First Amendment right to free speech.
The case is scheduled to be argued before the US Supreme Court in March.
It is not possible to estimate the number of government-funded oversight projects being introduced to universities and colleges at present. We suspect that funding in the millions for unconstitutional government-funded studies.
