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The Trump medication has not revealed which medication authoritative was targeted by the Biden administration's State Department successful a "disinformation" dossier compiling erstwhile societal media posts that identified them arsenic "purveyors of disinformation."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed astatine the astir caller Trump medication Cabinet gathering April 30 that an unidentified Trump medication authoritative who was contiguous had been the taxable of a State Department dossier detailing alleged promotion of societal media "disinformation."
Rubio, the State Department and the White House person not yet identified which authoritative the Biden medication targeted. Fox News Digital has reached retired repeatedly to the White House regarding the individuality of the official, including connected Monday, but did not person replies.
When asked for an update connected the individuality of the Trump official, the State Department directed Fox News Digital to Rubio's April 30 remark, detailing that, "We are going to beryllium turning implicit these dossiers to the individuals, and they’ll determine whether they privation to disclose it oregon not."
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The Trump medication has not revealed which medication authoritative was targeted by the Biden administration's State Department successful a "disinformation" dossier compiling erstwhile societal media posts that identified them arsenic "purveyors of disinformation." (Getty Images)
Rubio said during the April 30 Cabinet gathering that a little-known, now-defunct bureau wrong the State Department called the Global Engagement Center (GEC) had compiled disinformation dossiers connected Americans crossed the state arsenic portion of an effort to "censor" escaped speech, including an idiosyncratic who has since joined the Trump administration.
"We had an bureau successful the Department of State whose occupation it was to censor Americans," Rubio said during the meeting. "And, by the way, I'm not going to accidental who it is. I'll permission it up to them. There's astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic astatine this array contiguous who had a dossier successful that gathering of societal media posts to place them arsenic purveyors of disinformation. We person these dossiers. We are going to beryllium turning those implicit to these individuals."
Vice President JD Vance interjected, asking, "Was it maine oregon Elon (Musk)? We tin travel up erstwhile the media is gone," which drew laughter from the Cabinet.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a Cabinet gathering April 30. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
"But conscionable deliberation astir that. The Department of State of the United States had acceptable up an bureau to show the societal media posts and commentary of American citizens, to place them arsenic vectors of disinformation," Rubio continued. "When we cognize that the champion mode to combat disinformation is state of code and transparency."
Though Rubio did not place which Trump authoritative the Biden medication kept a dossier on, Elon Musk has antecedently railed against the Global Engagement Center.
"The worst offender successful US authorities censorship & media manipulation is an obscure bureau called GEC," Musk posted to X successful January 2023. That was much than a twelvemonth earlier Musk endorsed Trump successful the 2024 statesmanlike contention and became a fixture of the medication successful his impermanent relation with the Department of Government Efficiency.
"They are a menace to our democracy," Musk added.
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Former President Barack Obama established the Global Engagement Center successful 2016 done an enforcement bid aimed astatine coordinating counterterrorism messaging to overseas nations earlier it expanded its scope to besides see countering overseas propaganda and disinformation, State Department documents show.
Conservatives person slammed the bureau arsenic a governmental limb to soundlessness escaped speech, including Rubio successful an April op-ed erstwhile helium cited a 2020 GEC study claiming that a "Russian disinformation apparatus" was down nationalist speculation that the coronavirus was an "engineered bioweapon" oregon was created by "research conducted astatine the Wuhan institute."
Marco Rubio said during the April 30 Cabinet gathering that a little-known, now-defunct bureau wrong the State Department called the Global Engagement Center (GEC) had compiled disinformation dossiers connected Americans crossed the state arsenic portion of an effort to "censor" escaped speech. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency)
In the years pursuing the pandemic, the Department of Energy nether the Biden medication and erstwhile FBI Director Christopher Wray said grounds indicated that COVID-19 was the effect of a laboratory leak, portion the Trump administration's CIA reported earlier successful 2025 that a laboratory leak was the likely root of the virus.
In 2024, lawmakers did not o.k. caller backing for the bureau successful the National Defense Authorization Act, and it was scheduled to terminate connected Dec. 23, 2024. The Biden administration, however, shuffled staffers and rebranded the office.
It became the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub conscionable days earlier Trump's inauguration, the New York Post reported successful January.
Rubio announced successful April that the bureau would officially shutter.
Marco Rubio has railed against the bureau successful erstwhile interviews and op-eds, including authoring an sentiment portion for the Federalist successful April touting that helium was dismantling the "censorship-industrial complex" that had gripped agencies specified arsenic the State Department. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"I americium announcing the closure of the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI), formerly known arsenic the Global Engagement Center (GEC)," Rubio said successful an April 16 connection announcing the office's closure.
"Under the erstwhile administration, this office, which outgo taxpayers much than $50 cardinal per year, spent millions of dollars to actively soundlessness and censor the voices of Americans they were expected to beryllium serving," helium wrote. "This is antithetical to the precise principles we should beryllium upholding and inconceivable it was taking spot successful America. That ends today."
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Though Marco Rubio did not place which Trump authoritative the Biden medication kept a dossier on, Elon Musk has antecedently railed against the Global Engagement Center. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
Rubio has railed against the bureau successful erstwhile interviews and op-eds, including authoring an sentiment portion for the Federalist successful April touting that helium was dismantling the "censorship-industrial complex" that had gripped agencies specified arsenic the State Department.
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"Over the past half-decade, bodies similar GEC, crafted by our ain governing ruling class, astir destroyed America’s agelong escaped code history," he wrote successful the op-ed. "The enemies of code had caller lingo to warrant their authoritarian impulse. It was "disinformation," allegedly pushed by nefarious overseas governments, that was the No. 1 menace to ‘our democracy.’ To support 'our democracy,' this ‘disinformation’ had to beryllium identified and stamped out."
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