Washington – The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, closed on Wednesday the controversial global participation center of the State Department, which under the Biden administration faced strong criticisms of the Republicans of the House of Representatives Who said he was accustomed to censor.
Rubio made the decision to “preserve and protect the freedom that Americans exercised their freedom of expression” after the center – That was renamed Duration the last months of former President Joe Biden in office: “He spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans who were supposed to serve.
“It is the responsibility of each government official continuously to preserve and protect the freedom of Americans to exercise their freedom of expression,” he said in a statement.
“That is why today I am announcing the closure of the manipulation and interference of foreign information of the State Department (R/FIMI), formally known as the global commitment center.”
The former Florida senator called the “previous administration” in the statement, accusing that his management of the now closed center was “antithetic to the main directors that we should defend and inconceivable that was taking place in the United States.”
The State Department had previously notified Congress of its intention to close the GECthat effectively stopped working in December after legislators voted against financing it for the current fiscal year.
The Republicans began to point to the after the journalist Matt Taibbi revealed that the Biden administration had used it to press the US social media platforms at the beginning of the COVID-13 pandemic to censor several individuals and news organizations, it was intended to counteract to counteract the laboratory in China.
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The Washington examiner then discovered a subsidy of $ 100,000 GEC made to the Global Dis Information Index with London headquarters (GDI) in 2021 and 2022- A non -profit organization of media monitoring That would be considered 10 points of sale, including the position, as suppliers or “misinformation.”
While the declared objective of the agency was to “proactively address the attempts of adversaries to undermine the interests of the United States using misinformation and propaganda,” Rubio said that the State Department program was actually pointing to Americans, something he would like to defend.
“Freedom of expression and expression Have your leg a cornerstone of what Meeaans to be an American citizen. For centuries, the United States served as a lighthouse of hope for millions of people around the world, “said Rubio.” However, during the last decade, individuals in the United States have slandered, dismissed, loaded and also imprisoned for simply expressing their opinions.
“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 to continue fulfilling that commitment.”
