The State Department gave $573,000 on Oct. 1 to MENAACTION Inc., a Virginia-based nonprofit, to protect “media and society against disinformation” and to train Jordanian journalists how to identify “fake news,” according to federal spending records.

It’s a topic that MENAACTION’s founders know all about. Cofounder Chris Aboukhaled pushed Hamas’s claim that Israel bombed Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza. The rocket that struck the hospital was actually fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another terrorist group in Gaza. MENAACTION’s other cofounder, Mohammed Abu Dalhoum, who also suggested that Israel was behind the bombing, claimed Israel’s military response to Hamas “isn’t self-defense” and accused Israel of “genocide.” Experts agree that Israel’s targeted retaliatory strikes against Hamas do not constitute genocide.

(via Mark Tapscott at Instapundit)

[‘Disinformation’ means ‘dissent from our orthodoxy’ in Governmentese. That’s true no matter which party controls the White House or Congress, because this gets run by the bureaucratic state and its allies in the quasi-monopolistic elite. We saw that plainly enough in 2020 during the pandemic and with the Hunter Biden laptop story. — Ed]