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US Government Agencies Caught Censoring and Block-Listing The Gateway Pundit and Others with the Help of Radical UK Anti-Conservative Censorship Group

January 23, 2025

The US government was caught censoring and block-listing conservative websites in the US including The Gateway Pundit.

Internet sleuth Bad Kitty Unleashed released an explosive report this week on how the Center for Countering Digital Hate partnered with the US taxpayer-funded Restless Development organization to counter, blacklist, censor and silence Covid “disinformation” in 2021 and beyond.

Read Bad Kitty’s entire report starting here.

Imran Awan, the CEO at The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), bragged about getting conservative news orgs such as the Gateway Pundit, the Federalist, and Zero Hedge reported to social media AND demonetized! Especially from Google Ads, a prominent advertiser online.

According to Bad Kitty Restless Development is funded by numerous big money leftist groups and government agencies, including:

  • Obama Foundation
  • USAID (United States Agency for International Development)
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Clinton Health Initiative
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • United Nations
  • The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
  • Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation (NOREC)
  • Irish Aid
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
  • Ford Foundation
  • Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA)

Here is their complete list of donors:

According to the CCDH and Restless Development, their reports have been produced from this collaboration have been used in US Congress, UK Parliament, in gov briefings and media reporting across the world, particularly influencing the deliberations surrounding the Online Safety Bill and the scope of online harms.”

The CCDH and Restless Development “Stop Funding Hate” campaign also included “blocklists” that contained websites and platforms they created to blacklist and defund targeted websites like The Gateway Pundit.

The Stop Funding Misinformation campaign also carries blocklists.

Here’s a sampling:

  • The Gateway Pundit
  • Zero Hedge
  • The Federalist
  • Breitbart
  • Rebel News
  • American Greatness (AM Greatness)

Here is the full list:

The Stop Funding Misinformation collaborative are very happy with their work to destroy certain COVID “misinformation offenders.”

In fact, Imran Ahmed bragged during testimony in front of the UK Parliament that his group had successfully spurred Google to stop monetizing The Gateway Pundit!

Imran said this during testimony in front of the UK Parliament in September 2021 where he bragged about successfully pushing Google to demonetize The Gateway Pundit.

Imran Ahmed: Another problem with the Bill is that it does not deal with the advertising market. Google has two parts to its advertising business. The first part is a display network and websites.

Google has about a third of all additional ad revenue, but 95% of the sites that you ever see that have ads on them have ads placed there by Google.

Google has chosen breadth over expense. They have an enormous display network and they gobble up sites and put them in there, including Gateway Pundit, which was spreading election misinformation—“The Big Lie”—Covid disinformation, and all sorts of malignant and anti-black narratives (what?), really horrific racist nonsense.

We found that, thanks to Google ads monetisation—Google takes advertising revenue from everywhere; I think we found Democratic Party adverts placed on Gateway Pundit, a viciously far right site, which just goes to show that, even for the advertiser, it is a terrible waste of money, and most of them are utterly frustrated when they find out about it—Google has become a primary funder of malignant, violent, racist, anti-Semitic, and Covid disinformation content on the internet.

I can give you an example of a site I first heard about through the Home Office’s counterterrorism office and which we targeted last year. It was covered in adverts for household brands.

We contacted each of those brands and got all their adverts taken off, and the site shut down after the ads disappeared. It just goes to show you that the advertising revenue from Google is vital to the proselytisation of hatred in our society.

Counterterrorism told us that they were concerned about it. Gateway Pundit raised millions of dollars of revenue from Google ads—$1.1 million in just seven months.

I am very proud to tell you that after our campaign Stop Funding Misinformation, that story was featured in Forbes magazine in the USA.

I think it was last weekend when Google took them off their display network after a year of campaigning by CCDH, and they are now demonetised, which means that they will not be able to spread their nonsense any further or at the scale and speed at which they were able to before. That is another thing that I am very proud of my team for.

There is even video of this Imran Ahmed’s testimony before the UK Parliament about how glad he was to push Google to demonetize The Gateway Pundit after a year of campaigning Google to do so.

Here is the Imran testimony—via Bad Kitty:

The Stop Funding Misinformation website also included The Gateway Pundit in their “blocklist” of racist propaganda because we did not support the George Floyd movement.

The Stop Funding Misinforamtion Campaign bragged about demonetizing The Gateway Pundit after a year-long campaign.

From their website:

“Thanks to the work of the Stop Funding Misinformation campaign in highlighting Google’s inaction and persuading organisations like UNICEF to pull their advertising, advertising on the Gateway Pundit has since reduced, forcing it to seek other ways to profit from misinformation. The site recently added a subscription option, admitting that they face “a battle for survival” as campaigning had “restricted the advertising that pays our bills”.”

They openly bragged about taking down Google ads off of The Gateway Pundit — based on their published lies.

In 2022 the US State Department announced that USAID was working with Restless Development. This likely included funding.

Bad Kitty has discovered how US taxpayer dollars were used to fund foreign groups to demonetize and destroy conservative content and conservative websites.

This shows a direct link between the US Government and their finanicial support of the international censorship media complex.

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