Washington, DC (April 17, 2025) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced in an op-ed published in The Federalist that the State Department was complicit in censoring American citizens. In an effort to prevent that despicable conduct from recurring under his watch, Secretary Rubio is completely abolishing the Global Engagement Center (GEC).
While GEC had already ostensibly been dismantled when Congress declined to renew its funding in late 2024, the Biden Administration had sidestepped this legislative decision by reallocating GEC’s activities to another entity within the State Department and giving it a different name.
As the New Civil Liberties Alliance’s lawsuit, The Daily Wire, The Federalist, Texas v. State Dep’t, contended, GEC was funding the development of “mis” and “disinformation” tools and technologies that had the intent and effect of suppressing First Amendment protected speech.
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