The interview comes on the heels of Elon Musk’s team at DOGE uncovering evidence of USAID’s alleged misuse of funds and power. Benz, who has spent years exposing what he calls the “deep state’s global propaganda complex,” described USAID as a “rogue blob” operating with little oversight. “This is top-down U.S. government policy from the White House,” Benz said, his voice dripping with disdain. “It’s not just Internews going rogue. This is systematic.”
At the heart of Benz’s revelations is USAID’s alleged role in orchestrating advertiser boycotts against independent media outlets. Benz explained how USAID-funded organizations like Internews pressured corporations and governments to blacklist news sites that operated on social media platforms. “This is the basis of lawsuits here in the U.S., like The Daily Wire and The Federalist suing the State Department,” Benz said. “U.S. news sites are on these advertiser blacklists.”
The campaign, Benz argued, was not an isolated incident but part of a broader strategy to control the flow of information. “This is not a half-a-billion-dollar grantee of USAID going rogue and being ideological about this,” he said. “This is deliberate policy.” The goal, according to Benz, is to economically cripple independent outlets by stripping them of ad revenue, effectively silencing voices that challenge the mainstream narrative...<<<Read More>>>...
