Government agency, accused of censoring conservatives, closes its doors
The State Department’s Global Engagement Center was established in 2016. Its main objectives was to counter foreign disinformation. However, it joined the ranks of those who engaged in censorship and media influence. Funding for this agency was stripped as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. It shut down its operations on December 23, 2024.
From Fox News:
The lawsuit was brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Daily Wire and the Federalist, who sued the State Department, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other government officials earlier this month for “engaging in a conspiracy to censor, deplatform and demonetize American media outlets disfavored by the federal government.”
The lawsuit stated that the GEC was used as a tool for the defendants to carry out its censorship.
??”Congress authorized the creation of the Global Engagement Center expressly to counter foreign propaganda and misinformation,” the Texas Attorney General’s Office said in a press release. “Instead, the agency weaponized this authority to violate the First Amendment and suppress Americans’ constitutionally-protected speech.
The complaint describes the State Department’s project as “one of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press in the history of the nation.'”
The lawsuit argued that The Daily Wire, The Federalist and other conservative news organizations were branded “unreliable” or “risky” by the agency, “starving them of advertising revenue and reducing the circulation of their reporting and speech–all as a direct result of [the State Department’s] unlawful censorship scheme.”
Meanwhile, America First Legal, headed up by Stephen Miller, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for deputy chief of staff for policy, revealed that the GEC had used taxpayer dollars to create a video game called “Cat Park” to “Inoculate Youth Against Disinformation” abroad.
Additional Reading:
Phillips, M., & Dorgan, M. (2024, December 26). State Department’s ‘Global Engagement Center’ accused of censoring Americans shuts its doors. Fox News. Link.
Category: Get woke, Government Incompetence, Society
“It shut down its operations on December 23, 2024.”
Me:
Did they though?
At this point, I do not believe anything.
I am constantly fearing for the news of another “lone wolf” attack.
I don’t believe for a second the Drats will just ride quietly into the sunset.
They are running out of options, and that when the John Wilkes Booths come out into the limelight.
Gotta shred all the documents before the man comes around. I say him that is filthy let him be filthy still.
Fun times,SOON,
Dat’s a good one.
Obama looks extra cheery.
Big Mike must have topped him like a cherry
This office had a budget of $61 million and employed about 120 people when it closed at the end of December 2024 following the non-renewal of its budget by the United States Congress.
So, will these 120 now unemployed federal employees be shuffled to another position with the government, or will we soon be seeing crews of them hanging out in the parking lot of Home Depot waiting for some day labor gig censoring speech? Inquiring minds want to know.
“closed at the end of December 2024”
Premature much?
I’m all for ending this year early but it’s still 2024 here for a few
more days.
Roughly $508,333 per person.
“…shut down its operations…” Sounds like a good start. One (1) down…how many dozens left to go? $61 million on 120 employees? Somebody do the maff on that for me.
61,000,000 divided by 120 equals 508,333.3333333333
X the nearly ten (10) years they were in bidnezz. Pretty good work…if you can get it.
Can always count on a Good Supply Daddy to answer the hard questions.
If this was a constitutional enterprise, why did they cut and run?
To ask the question is to answer it.
Well, the 4 year 1000 year 4th Reich is coming to an end and hopefully the loose ends of the DOJ/FBI Shutzaffle will end their brown shirt tactics of supressing the opposition of the demoRat party.
Not tired of winning.
However, for those that violated Constitutionally guaranteed rights, criminal charges should be pursued.
I’m waiting for someone to claim they’re tired of winning. Cry babies.
Every State Department functionary I ever dealt with was an absolute weenie.