🚨 Sec Rubio with Mike Benz on dismantling the censorship bureaucracy🚨

🚨 Secretary of State Marco Rubio Shuts Down State Dept Censorship Apparatus, Eliminating Global Engagement Center Residual Agency
Secretary Rubio's live conversation with Mike Benz on dismantling the censorship bureaucracy.
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GOVT. CENSORSHIP: "American taxpayers through the State Department were paying groups to try to silence the voice of Americans."
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Sec of State Marco Rubio announces DISMANTLING of censorship group CFIM — formerly known as the Global Engagement Center, in conversation with
Mike Benz.
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"By 2020, it had grown into this movement of actually going after individual American voices."
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“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."
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"American taxpayers through the State Department were paying groups to attack Americans and to try to silence the voice of Americans."
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“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."
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“We are going to spend money on messaging. It's going to be pro-American messaging."
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"But when you turn disinformation into a weapon, a political weapon, a label that you can use to go after people you don't like and say, oh, anything that person is saying is disinformation."
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"I watch mainstream broadcasts every day that I know are disinformation. Okay. We have an issue right now. They keep calling a Maryland man deported to El Salvador. No, not Maryland man. El Salvador citizen deported to El Salvador. That's disinformation."
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“We've got a lot of work to do, but, but the most important thing is we're going to make sure that as we communicate to the world, it's going to be pro American, you know, things that build up what this country's working on and explaining what we're doing, not attacking Americans who are exercising their First Amendment rights."
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April 16, 2025
The State Dept. Global Engagement Center was the epicenter of the Dept of State operation to control speech on social media platforms.
Following revelations from within the Twitter Files, and facing increasing scrutiny, the GEC operation was shut down – but the remnants of the operation remained active within the State Dept.
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The terms “disinformation, misinformation and malinformation” were weaponized by the State Dept to define speech against their interests and block, deplatform and remove any voices, including in the U.S., they determined were against the interests of the U.S. government.
The COVID-19 and vaccine narrative were both examples of speech targeted by the GEC and later the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office (R-FIMI).

Today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Acting Undersecretary of Public Diplomacy, Darren Beattie, delivered notice to congress the speech and platform control operation has been shut down.

Secretary Rubio sat down with Mike Benz to discuss.