Rubio Closing State Dept Censorship Bureau

The Biden admin tried many times and in many ways to institute censorship for Wrongthink, attempting to do end runs around the Constitution. One of those finally bit the big one

Over the last decade, Americans have been slandered, fired, charged, and even jailed for simply voicing their opinions.

That ends today.

I am announcing the closure of the @StateDept‘s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, formerly the Global Engagement… https://t.co/ucdBPmPJC1

— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) April 16, 2025

“…which cost taxpayers more than $50 million per year and actively silenced and censored the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving.”

Of course, this is how Politico cover it

State Department eliminates key office tasked with fighting foreign disinformation

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced the closure of the agency’s hub for fighting foreign disinformation campaigns — the final nail in a yearslong effort to shut down the office accused by GOP lawmakers of censoring conservative voices.

In a statement, Rubio claimed the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office at the State Department, formerly known as the Global Engagement Center, had “spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving.” According to Rubio, the relatively modest federal office expended “more than $50 million per year.”

“This is antithetical to the very principals [sic] we should be upholding and inconceivable it was taking place in America,” Rubio said. “That ends today. Under the administration of President Trump, we will always work to protect the rights of the American people, and this is an important step in continuing to fulfill that commitment.”

The center came under fire from leading Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee last year for allegedly silencing conservative voices through its efforts to clear up disinformation and misinformation online. Elon Musk, who now heads up the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, described the office in 2023 as “the worst offender in U.S. government censorship.”

Obviously, Democrats want to keep this stuff going, because the group in all its names went after Republicans/Conservatives.

But the center’s supporters, including Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), have asserted that it plays a critical role in combating Russian and Chinese disinformation.

And all that stuff can be moved to a different part of the State Department. Or, the CIA, DIA, and other agencies that focus on that kind of stuff. It can be monitored and supervised. Democrats do not want that. But, they should realize that any program like that can be turned against Democrats.

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