don't wind up clocks run a little quicker when the spring is close to being unloaded?
>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/breaking-exclusive-deposition-daniel-kimmage-uncovers-state-department-funding-fact-checkers-possibly-us/
the Acting Coordinator for the Global Engagement Center at the Department of State. In this role, Mr. Kimmage leads [led] efforts to coordinate and synchronize U.S. government communications efforts designed to counter terrorist recruitment and state-sponsored propaganda and disinformation.
Based on Kimmage’s testimony we’ve uncovered information that the State Department was funding online fact-checkers. Kimmage doesn’t state whether it was foreign or domestic fact-checkers that the State Department was funding.
In the deposition in the Missouri and Louisiana case against the government, Kimmage shared the following
1 Q. Has the GEC ever supported
2 fact-checking organizations inside the United
3 States?
4 A. I don’t believe so.
17 Q. What fact-checkers do you work
18 with?
19 A. I believe the Pointer(sp) Institute is
20 the only one I recall. I don’t recall the —
21 the specific organizations.
22 Q. Where is that? Where is that
23 located?
24 A. I don’t recall.
25 Q. Is that a foreign or domestic
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1 fact-checking organization?
2 A. I don’t — I don’t recall. I don’t
3 recall anything beyond the name.
12 Q. Do you have any understanding of
13 how GEC works with fact-checking organizations,
14 in general?
15 A. I believe it would be identifying
16 an organization that works in a location where a
17 foreign propaganda disinformation actor, like
18 Russia or China, would be active and supporting
19 them in some fashion.
20 Q. What kind of fashion?
21 A. Support could range from a grant or
22 a financial support to information sharing or
23 training in tools and techniques.
Kimmage must have tried to hide who that entity was that he was talking about.
During the session, Dr. Kimmage emphasized the need for societies and governments to effectively respond to disinformation without resorting to censorship or free speech. “Training programs in areas such as investigative journalism, fact-checking, media literacy, and digital forensics are proven to help combat disinformation,” Kimmage commented. He added, “Even more important than programs such as these, is the free debate of ideas and a free press.”
interesting…
and then this tidbit therein
"As that sprang runs down, the tick and the tock's gonna get closer together 'n speed up ye clock!"
The FBI would lose their disclosure/leak platform to the news media