THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON, ADAM KREDO -- The Red Cross has still not addressed the group's failure to visit the Israeli hostages in captivity, as the ICRC has routinely done during other armed conflicts.
The International Committee of the Red Cross doesn't do much advertising.
The organization, to which American taxpayers are the largest donors, ran just five Facebook ads between 2019 and 2023, and its more recent digital spots ran exclusively in Europe, a Free Beacon review of Meta's ad spending database found. That's all changing now as the committee faces intense criticism over its participation in a series of shocking Hamas hostage release ceremonies.
On Monday, just five days after we reported on talks among Senate Republicans to reassess U.S. funding to the ICRC, the committee's head of communications and public affairs, Steve Dorsey, wrote the Free Beacon asking for "more info on newsletter sponsorship or online ads."