By State Department Scrambles To Scuttle $100M Censorship Network Before Trump Takes Office
by Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge
The State Department revealed in a Monday filing that they are “substantially likely” to shut down their $100M Global Engagement Center (GEC), which was revealed in early 2023 to have been funding a “disinformation” tracking group which worked to pressure advertisers to demonetize outlets it accuses of spreading “disinformation.”
Except, they’re really just “realigning” the “Center’s staff and funding to other Department offices and bureaus for foreign information manipulation.”
Clears throat: https://t.co/CVf6rouMEH pic.twitter.com/5ZYNqdOdCl
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) December 10, 2024
The move comes amid a lawsuit from Texas AG Ken Paxton and several conservative media outlets listed a GEC-funded “dynamic exclusion list” of websites it doesn’t like, which it would then distribute to ad tech companies – such as Microsoft’s Xandr – in order to try and “defund and downrank these worst offenders,” and deprive said sites of ad revenue.
🚨Mike Benz explains how the State Department used ISIS as an excuse to implement full surveillance through social media companies:
“In 2014-16 the State Department created this thing called the Global Engagement Center, which was the first censorship capacity of the USG. This… pic.twitter.com/N0gh6HrymP
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) December 3, 2024
h/t Autism Capital
As Headline News‘ Ken Silva notes further; it’s unclear how the GEC’s closure will affect the lawsuit. Monday’s court filing said lawyers for all parties are still discussing the implications. Read Full Article >
