DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Donald Trump administration announced it is closing an agency that funded and participated in “censorship” of disfavored viewpoints online.
The State Department’s Global Engagement Center is shutting down almost a decade after its creation due to “free speech” concerns, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a Wednesday press release. The Global Engagement Center faced criticism from Republicans in Congress as well as a lawsuit for funding groups that allegedly created “blacklists” for right-leaning media outlets to stave off their profits.
“Under the previous administration, this office, which cost taxpayers more than $50 million per year, spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving,” Rubio said. “This is antithetical to the very [principles] we…
