Campaigners calling for Elon Musk's X platform to be closed down have received £300,000 from organisations partly-funded by the taxpayer.
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, set up by the late founder of Hamlyn publishers, is among the charities that have given money to the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
The foundation received £1.4million from the Government and the Greater London Assembly between 2020 and 2023.
Last year, a whistleblower revealed that an internal CCDH document listed one of the group’s aims as: "Kill Musk’s Twitter."
The group were targeting Elon Musk's X platform
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In November 2020, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation donated £100,000 to Stop Funding Hate, with the aim of "empowering communities to tackle media hate."
However, while the money was paid out while the Tories were in power, Conservative MPs want Labour to stop paying grants to organisations that help fund left-wing campaign groups.
It has been even claimed that one of the campaign groups was co-founded by Morgan McSweeney, who is now Sir Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff.
Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty said: "It’s disgraceful that taxpayers’ hard-earned money is being wasted on Left-wing campaign groups, one set up by the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, who are waging war on our free media and trying to shut down X.
"The Government should urgently look into the recipients of these grants and make sure they are operating within standards the public would expect – not just fulfilling political vendettas."
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The chief executive of CCDH Imran Ahmed previously worked as a political strategist for the Labour Party and is a former adviser to Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn.
Ahmed said McSweeney who was one of the founding directors when it was established in 2018 but resigned his directorship in 2020, is "a dear friend."
GB News has contacted the CCDH for a comment.
Stop Funding Hate’s director Richard Wilson told The Telegraph: "As an independent, non-partisan, people-powered campaign, Stop Funding Hate has never sought nor received any form of government funding."
Rosey Ellum, Stop Funding Hate's director, previously called former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak an "absolute f***er" and in 2023 Amanda Morris, the former Stop Funding Hate community organiser, was exposed over sharing allegedly anti-Semitic content on social media.
At the time Morris denied the posts were anti-Semitic saying she opposed all forms of racism.
