Michael Shellenberger testified on reporting by his news organization Public that the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, whose goals include shaping elections worldwide, “effectively” served as an arm of USAID, whose official admitted USAID approves OCCRP’s “key personnel” and “annual work plan” in a German documentary last year. Committee member Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said he would reintroduce his bill to get rid of “Track F” grants by the National Science Foundation that fund censorship, which Shellenberger described as “middleware” that allows “centralized authorities to decide what the truth was and filter it” and started as “recycle[d]” Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency projects.
