H.R. 417 explained · 119th Congress · Pending in Congress
End U.N. Censorship Act
Cosponsors: 5 (0 D, 5 R) · per Congress.gov, 2026-10-12
Introduced: 2025-01-15
Latest action (2025-01-15): Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
What H.R. 417 does, in plain terms
End U.N. Censorship Act This 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.
Official summary by the Congressional Research Service, via Congress.gov.
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