The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office was set up to fight foreign disinformation but in recent years has been used repeatedly to censor the free speech of American citizens. No more.
This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he has shuttered the office.
The American people were essentially sending their tax dollars to this government entity which then worked against them. It’s insanity.
The liberal outlet Politico is very sad about this:
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.”
In the video clip below, Rubio explains how this happened.
Via the Western Lensman:
“They were also taking money from this program and using it to fund these NGOs, these third party groups who were supposed to be impartial. Those groups were then tagging — They were literally tagging and labeling voices in American politics.”
“American taxpayers through the State Department were paying groups to attack Americans and to try to silence the voice of Americans.”
“Before President Trump took over and they disbanded this unit, they just renamed it and moved it somewhere else. But now over the last few months, we’ve worked on it and just taken it down.”
“We are going to spend money on messaging. It’s going to be pro-American messaging.”
Watch the video:
GOVT. CENSORSHIP: “American taxpayers through the State Department were paying groups to try to silence the voice of Americans.”
Sec of State Marco Rubio announces DISMANTLING of censorship group CFIM — formerly known as the Global Engagement Center, in conversation with… pic.twitter.com/PHtsGhJU8y
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 16, 2025
This would not have happened if Trump had not won the 2024 election. It’s just one more reminder of how high the stakes were and still are.
