Jim Hoft’s AbleChild Awards Speech — Here Is Our Story on How USAID Has Targeted, Censored and Spent Millions of Dollars to Destroy, Demonetize, and Block The Gateway Pundit

On Saturday night, AbleChild.org held its annual Awards Dinner in Vero Beach, Florida.

This year, AbleChild awarded The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft a Humanitarian Hero award for “breaking the narrative” and outstanding reporting.

There has been a lot in the news this past week on the corrupt US government agency USAID. Jim Hoft focused on this agency and how it has been used to bludgeon independent media and populist news websites. It’s a story you will not hear in the mainstream press.

Hoft listed the numerous times that USAID actively funded national and international groups to censor, block, and demonetize The Gateway Pundit.

The incidents are well documented. Jim Hoft went over each organization that was paid government money to silence The Gateway Pundit and others.

FTR: Two important incidents were overlooked and were not included in Jim’s acceptance speech.

In 2023, the State of Missouri and the State of Louisiana represented Jim Hoft from The Gateway Pundit in their case against the Biden administration and its censorship apparatus.

In March of ’24, the Supreme Court heard the case brought by Missouri, Louisiana, Jim Hoft, and four other plaintiffs. The court heard the Murthy versus Missouri case, the most important free speech case in the past several decades.

The case is ongoing. We, the plaintiffs, expect a favorable response from the government in this case in the months ahead.

In May 2023, America First Legal and attorney John Sauer filed a massive lawsuit against the cornerstone of online censorship during the 2020 and 2022 elections.

In this suit, The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft and reporter Jill Hines are suing one of the primary private cabals that coordinated with the federal government to effectively censor millions of people.

America First Legal (AFL) filed a federal class action against key persons and entities involved in the so-called “Election Integrity Partnership” and the “Virality Project,” on behalf of Jill Hines, the co-Director of Health Freedom Louisiana, and Jim Hoft, the founder the popular news website The Gateway Pundit.

Defendants include the Stanford Internet Observatory and its Director and Research Manager, Alex Stamos and Renée DiResta, Dr. Kate Starbird of the University of Washington, Graphika, and the Atlantic Research Council’s Digital Forensic Lab.

This case is also still ongoing.

Watch Jim Hoft’s full speech below:

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Here are the several attempts by USAID to silence, deplatform, and demonetize The Gateway Pundit that were discussed in Saturday night’s speech:

Hamilton 68

In 2017, the Gateway Pundit was also targeted by a group called Hamilton 68. The group of powerful DC elites and prominent intel leaders claimed to track Russian propaganda. The group immediately listed Gateway Pundit as one of the top Russian propaganda websites, despite no proof of this whatsoever, in order to smear and damage our website.

Former CIA Chief Michael Morell and Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff were on the ADVISORY BOARD of the Hamilton 68.

In early 2017, Google immediately began hiding Gateway Pundit articles on their search engine. Google effectively made the Gateway Pundit disappear after years of having our stories prominently displayed.

Also in 2017, Facebook immediately began to ban and censor Gateway Pundit articles. Our Facebook traffic dwindled from 24% of our total traffic in 2016 to 2% a year later – an 88% decrease in Facebook traffic.

We later discovered we were not alone. Facebook banned traffic to numerous top conservative media outlets. Several of these outlets went out of business

In September 2018, Jim Hoft testified before Congress about Facebook’s targeted censorship of conservative outlets. At the same time this was happening, liberal outlets saw their traffic increase.

Jim Hoft Testifies Before Congress

In 2019 Pinterest banned The Gateway Pundit for nudity. Something completely moronic and false.

We were also banned on LinkedIn.

By 2020, The Gateway Pundit was so well known for being targeted and censored that Rush Limbaugh was compelled to discuss how media censorship was affecting the Gateway Pundit on his show.

Also, around this time local police warned Jim Hoft that Antifa had included him on their hit list..

During this time, Newsguard, a media fact-checking organization that targets conservatives and independent media, started targeting the Gateway Pundit, along with other conservative outlets.

We later found out that Newsguard was funded, in part, by the US Defense Department and was awarded $749,000 in 2021.

Since that allegation was made Newsguard insisted that they were not receiving direct funding by USAID. Instead it appears it was money given by USAID through several channels before it reaches Newsquard.

In 2021, liberal activists were successful in having Google ban the Gateway Pundit completely from their Google Ads program. They all cheered this development.

The UK’s Center for Countering Digital Hate was one of the groups behind this.

Internet sleuth Bad Kitty Unleashed released an explosive report recently 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.

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

CCDH list

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.

Stop Funding Misinfo blacklist

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

 

Defunding TGP

Sometime around 2023, the Department of Homeland Security created the Stanford EIP Censorship Group, The Gateway Pundit was the most targeted website by this censorship group created by the US government.

In March 2020 a partnership was created called the Trusted News Initiative (TNI) between Big Tech and legacy media to exclude rival publishers from the dominant internet platforms. The partnership was launched by BBC Director-General Tony Hall, with the agreement that members of the TNI “work together to . . . ensure that disinformation myths are stopped in their tracks.” This coordinated effort is, by definition, a classic form of a “group boycott” to damage the ability of smaller publishers to compete or even survive.

Members of the TNI include legacy media outlets the BBC, The Washington Post, Reuters, and Associated Press, along with social media and tech giants—Twitter, Meta (Facebook/Instagram), Microsoft, Google/YouTube, and LinkedIn. TNI members collectively hold 90% of the overall social media market, 90% share of the social networking market, 75% of the video hosting market, and over 90% of the search-engine market.

The lawsuit alleges these outlets partnered with several Big Tech firms to “collectively censor online news,” including stories about COVID-19 and the 2020 U.S. presidential election that were not aligned with official narratives regarding those issues.

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include Children’s Health Defense, Robert Kennedy Jr., Creative Destruction Media, Trial Site News, Ty and Charlene Bollinger (founders of The Truth About Cancer and The Truth About Vaccines), Erin Elizabeth Finn (publisher of Health Nut News), Jim Hoft (founder of The Gateway Pundit), Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ben Tapper, a chiropractor.
There are proven indirect connections between USAID and the BBC and other members of TNI.

The Gateway Pundit was also targeted by USAID.

USAID spent $268 million to fund over 6,000 approved journalists.

USAID gave Soros groups $260 million.

In 2020, the The Election Integrity Partnership was created to work with government to censor “election misinformation.”

The group listed The Gateway Pundit as its number 2 target on their list behind the actor, James Woods!

EIP worked with the government to censor and blacklist election “misinformation” after 2020 election.

In 2020, lawmaker Greg Steube questioned the CEO of Google on why he could not find Gateway Pundit when he did a basic search on Google. The CEO, of course, could not answer the question.

In 2023, the State of Missouri and State of Louisiana represented Jim Hoft from The Gateway Pundit in their case against the Biden administration and their censorship apparatus.
In March of ’24, the Supreme Court heard the case brought by Missouri, Louisiana, Jim Hoft and four other plaintiffs. The court heard the Murphy versus Missouri case, the most important free speech case in the past several decades.

The case is ongoing…. UPDATE – Trump Admin will settle.

Wikipedia anyone?  TGP the target of the deep state.  Facebook and Google promote the lies.

The censorship never stops.

The Gateway Pundit has faced several debilitating lawsuits which have cost us significant income, time and energy. We resolved another lawsuit recently.
The good news… Despite the continuous attacks on The Gateway Pundit we continue to grow our audience year after year. We currently average over 3 million page visits per day. In 2024 surpassed one billion page visits.

Despite all of the vicious attacks to destroy us, we continue to grow. It must make our detractors very, very angry.

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