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The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) is an imperialist think tank owned by the Australian government. It partnered with Twitter to delete 170,000 accounts that supported the CPC or criticized the United States.[1]
Funding
The ASPI receives most of its funding from the Australian government but also receives $700,000 per year from the Pentagon and $430,000 from the U.S. State Department. It also receives donations from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Lockheed Martin, and the governments of the UK, Canada, Japan, and the Netherlands.[1]
ASPI's current grant from the Australian Government Department of Defence provides 20 million AUD over 5 financial years from 2018-2023.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Alan Macleod (2022-01-20). "ASPI – The Gov't-Funded Conspiracist Think Tank Now Controlling Your Social Media Feed" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2022-08-26. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- ↑ Department of Defence (2018-06-30). "Commonwealth Grant Agreement" ASPI. Archived from the original on 2023-01-21. Retrieved 2023-01-21.