Secretary of State Marco Rubio just pulled the plug on the State Department’s foreign disinfo department.
Forty staffers were put on paid leave.
The office silenced Americans under the guise of ‘stopping propaganda’ but those days are over.
Rubio’s message is clear, censorship doesn’t belong here in America.
And he went on to post this on X:
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 Center (GEC), which cost taxpayers more than $50 million per year and actively silenced and censored the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving.
CENSORSHIP: The agency that silenced many of us here on 𝕏 is no more. Secretary Rubio has notified Congress that he has eliminated all full-time staff positions and 100+ contractors at the State Department’s CFIM formerly known as the Global Engagement Center – the State… https://t.co/fWybXxN433 pic.twitter.com/XLJjFnxCTh
— @amuse (@amuse) April 16, 2025
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