Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr., Bill Gates, Tucker Carlson, and a host of other U.S. political figures have all descended on the Qatari capital of Doha in recent days to discuss an array of current events. In doing so, they perhaps unwittingly lent considerable legitimacy to an event with open ties to anti-American organizations.

Doha Forum, the event in question, invited dignitaries from across the world between Dec. 6 and Dec. 8 to discuss topics ranging from geopolitics to artificial intelligence. To host the conference, Doha Forum relied on partnerships with a wide variety of organizations. Included among these partners were state-backed Turkish and Qatari media outlets that produce consistent flows of anti-American content, as well as entities with strong links to the Chinese government, which seek to assist the United States’s primary adversary in accomplishing its aims.