A new report released by the conservative Heritage Foundation puts a spotlight on a Washington Examiner investigative series on right-leaning media outlets appearing to be “censored” by government actors.

The report focuses on the National Endowment for Democracy, a State Department-funded nonprofit group that the author, former U.S. Agency for International Development official Tim Meisburger, argued “needs oversight and reform” due to it being “staffed almost entirely by Democrats.” The Washington Examiner first reported in February 2023 that the NED and the State Department’s Global Engagement Center funded the Global Disinformation Index, a British group blacklisting right-of-center websites from advertising dollars.