The spending bill up for debate in Congress to fund the government through the end of the year includes a provision that reauthorizes a State Department agency critics say is at the center of a government “censorship scheme.”
The bill would reauthorize the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, which was created to counter messaging spread by foreign actors such as violent terrorists abroad, but instead allegedly worked to suppress Americans’ speech. Just last week, GEC was preparing to shut down operations because it had not been reauthorized by Congress. But the more than 1,500-page spending bill would give it at least one more year, leading to widespread criticism from Republicans.
The Daily Wire sued the State Department, along with The Federalist and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, over GEC’s relationship with anti-“misinformation” outfits like NewsGuard…
