Conservative media outlets that are struggling as their advertising dollars dry up may have a British-based “disinformation” group tied to left-wing megadonor George Soros in part to blame.

The Global Disinformation Index, a “risk ratings” outfit that has received State Department funding, secretly distributes “blacklists” of right-tilting news organizations to advertising companies, according to the Washington Examiner series “Disinformation Inc.”

Congressional Republicans called for answers Monday from the State Department.

“It ought to scare everybody in this country, regardless of whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, that the government is that involved in censoring speech,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, Missouri Republican, said in an email. “The unholy alliance between government and big tech must be dismantled.”

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Rep. Elise Stefanik, New York Republican, said the “State Department should not be funding woke organizations who seek to censor and demonetize conservative outlets.”

“House Republicans will assert our oversight over the State Department’s funding of these type of groups,” she told the Examiner.

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