America First Legal's Litigation Against Biden State Department Unearths Orwellian, Internal USAID 'Disinformation Primer' | 14 March 2024 | (Press release) Today, America First Legal (AFL) released documents from litigation against the U.S. Department of State's Global Engagement Center (GEC), exposing the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)'s internal "Disinformation Primer." Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO), founded by Mike Benz, analyzed these documents and discovered that: The US Agency for International Development (USAID)'s Center on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) created an internal "Disinformation Primer" that revealed the agency's explicit praise for private sector censorship strategies and proposed additional censorship practices and techniques; USAID's censorship proposals were aimed at influencing private-sector technology companies, media organizations, education ministries, national governments, and funding bodies... USAID recommended Google's Redirect Method and "pre-bunking" (i.e., psychological inoculation) as potential solutions to stop the erosion of traditional media influence over citizen hearts and minds...