• House Republicans are pushing to block the Pentagon from engaging with companies that collaborate with left-wing fact-checking groups that blacklist conservatives, according to reports in the Federalist.
• As the fiscal year 2024 defense spending bill is being finalized, House members are advocating for a provision in the bill that prohibits the Defense Department from entering into contracts with entities like NewsGuard Technologies or similar advertising firms known for blacklisting conservative news sources.
• “Political correctness is sabotaging our military from within, even as the Pentagon faces a recruiting shortage,” Rep. Richard McCormick (R-GA) said in a statement. “My amendment prohibits the Department of Defense from contracting with any so-called ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’ monitors that rate news and information sources.

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