Yesterday, Blaze News reported that a shadowy Ukrainian NGO called "Texty.org" had placed Blaze Media and Glenn Beck on its enemies list for supposedly spreading "Russian propaganda and disinformation." While masquerading as an independent journalism organization, the outlet tweeted "Claims that [] Texty.org's editorial team is trained or funded by the U.S. government are outright lies." Last night, Return uncovered this to be a demonstratable lie by the organization and that it is funded with U.S. tax dollars by several American agencies and funding and partnerships tied to the George Soros-led Open Society Foundations.
Screenshot from Global Investigative Journalism Network Texty.org operates under another name, the Data Journalism Agency, and that organization shares the same employees and email addresses as Texty.org.
The Data Journalism Agency openly brags about its partnerships with these agencies on its partners page.
TAPAS is directly funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Screenshot from Data Journalism Agency These organizations love to hide behind a series of complex funding operations to obscure their true purpose.
So for clarity's sake: The State Department is funding an NGO compiling a list of Americans with the wrong opinions about giving billions of dollars in funding to Ukraine through USAID. The United States Agency for International Development is an independent agency of the United States government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.
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