EXCLUSIVE: Chi­na Expert Gor­don Chang Rips Wash­Post for Defend­ing Gov’t‑Big Tech Col­lu­sion

The Wash­ing­ton Post Edi­to­r­i­al Board went to bat for the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment col­lud­ing with Big Tech to police so-called dis­in­for­ma­tion online. Gate­stone Insti­tute Senior Fel­low Gor­don Chang was hav­ing none of it.
“Don’t defund the fight against Rus­sia and China’s dis­in­for­ma­tion,” decried the Board in the edi­to­r­i­al. In the edi­to­r­i­al, the Board defend­ed the State Depart­ment-tied Glob­al Engage­ment Center’s financ­ing of the now-infa­mous Glob­al Dis­in­for­ma­tion Index (ini­tial­ly based in the U.K.), which has since been panned for black­list­ing right-lean­ing Amer­i­can media. The Post pro­pa­gan­dized how the GEC “deploys a $61 mil­lion bud­get and a staff of 125 to counter dis­in­for­ma­tion from Rus­sia, Chi­na, Iran and ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions.” The only prob­lem, as Chang point­ed out in an exclu­sive inter­view with MRC Free Speech Amer­i­ca, is that these pre­texts are smoke­screens the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment has co …