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The
Global Engagement Center is a multi-agency entity housed within the U.S. State Department that grew out of a purported effort to identify and counter propaganda produced abroad that threatened the interests of the United States. The GEC has since mutated into an outfit apparently keen also to help identify and counter constitutionally protected speech produced domestically that threatens the interests of the Washington establishment.
The GEC —
dubbed the “worst offender in U.S. government censorship & media manipulation” by Elon Musk in the wake of the Twitter Files and found to be internally dysfunctional in a 2022 State Department Office of Inspector General report — was slated for extinction; however, congressional cheerleaders in both parties might get their way and an extension of the agency’s mandate beyond 2024.
Blaze News has reviewed the GEC’s questionable history as well multiple accusations raised against it concerning the agency’s backing of organizations that have a reputation for suppressing Americans’ speech online. It is clear that at the very least, the agency Congress is poised to keep alive with its short-term funding bill succumbed to…
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