Rubio Shutters State Department’s Online Censorship Office

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is shuttering the State Department’s online speech censorship office after the Biden administration opted to rebrand the office amid Republican scrutiny last year.

Rubio announced the closure of the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office, previously known as the Global Engagement Center (GEC), a unit that originated with a counterterrorism mission but quickly transformed into a tool for online speech suppression of Americans.