# Plain Language Summary: End U.N. Censorship Act

This bill prevents the U.S. government from spending any taxpayer money to support a tool called iVerify, which was created by the United Nations Development Programme. The bill also blocks funding for any similar projects that aim to label information as false, misleading, or inaccurate. Essentially, it's saying that American dollars cannot go toward UN efforts to identify or flag what the bill's sponsors consider problematic speech or misinformation.

The bill goes further than just blocking one specific tool. It prohibits U.S. funding for any UN initiative that tries to categorize speech as "mal-information," "mis-information," or "dis-information." This means the State Department and other federal agencies cannot voluntarily contribute money to UN organizations working on these kinds of projects. If any money has already been set aside for these purposes, it would be taken back and put into the general Treasury instead of going to the UN.

The practical effect is that it removes American financial support from international efforts to combat false or misleading information online. Supporters of the bill argue this protects free speech from what they see as censorship by international organizations. Critics might counter that it limits resources for fact-checking and combating deliberately false information that spreads globally. Either way, the bill directly affects how much money flows from the U.S. government to UN programs focused on identifying problematic information.

End U.N. Censorship Act

Cline, Ben

End U.N. Censorship ActThis bill specifies that no federal funds may be made available to support the iVerify tool (a fact-checking tool developed by the United Nations Development Programme) or any other effort that seeks to label speech or expression as mal-, mis-, or dis-information.