The U.S. State Department paid German activists to train teachers on “disinformation,” according to records obtained by the Media Research Center (MRC).
Educators were trained through a year-long series of seminars hosted by the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab, which provided tools on how to censor speech.
According to MRC, some of the tools included video games focusing on left-wing narratives.
The State Department also encouraged curricula that act as a computer plug-in that integrates biased ratings into lesson plans.
Other lessons encouraged students to become political activists, as children were rewarded for promoting censorship.
A guide connected to the training sessions, “Medialogues on Propaganda,” was described as having been “designed to advance the quality of media literacy education in Germany by developing the knowledge, confidence, and leadership skills of German and American teachers and teacher educators.”
“It is noteworthy that Germany was chosen to co-host the seminars: the nation’s government has been the most aggressive European Union power censoring online speech and restricting individual expression,” MRC reported. “The Rhode Island Lab’s partner in Germany was the University of Würzburg, a controversial state entity with a long history of censorship; the curricula was often developed with German government funds and was crafted, in part, by a vice chairman of the country’s socialist ruling party.”
Many of the seminars’ speakers were European, MRC noted.
