The philanthropy of Democratic megadonor George Soros cut a large check last year to the charity arm in the United States of a group blacklisting conservative media from advertising dollars, according to newly released grant records.

The records show the Soros-backed Foundation to Promote Open Society, a major grantmaking organization, sent $250,000 in 2023 to Disinformation Index, Inc., the American outpost of the Global Disinformation Index. That British group, which previously received $150,000 from Soros along with funding from the State Department, has faced “censorship” scrutiny from Congress ever since a series of Washington Examiner reports shed light on its efforts to defund news outlets in the U.S.