ASD was sponsored by the German Marshall Fund, funded by Western governments. Its top two financial sponsors, at more than $1 million per year each, are the [[U.S. Agency for International Development]] (USAID) and the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt). The U.S. State Department also provides more than half a million dollars per year, as do the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and the foreign affairs ministries of [[Sweden]] and [[Norway]]. It likewise receives at least a quarter of a million dollars per year from [[NATO]].<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/10/24/facebook-censorship-of-alternative-media-just-the-beginning-warns-top-neocon-insider/</ref> | ASD was sponsored by the German Marshall Fund, funded by Western governments. Its top two financial sponsors, at more than $1 million per year each, are the [[U.S. Agency for International Development]] (USAID) and the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt). The U.S. State Department also provides more than half a million dollars per year, as do the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and the foreign affairs ministries of [[Sweden]] and [[Norway]]. It likewise receives at least a quarter of a million dollars per year from [[NATO]].<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2018/10/24/facebook-censorship-of-alternative-media-just-the-beginning-warns-top-neocon-insider/</ref> |