Remember the Global Engagement Center? The State Department’s censorship squad became a target after the release of the Twitter Files, which showed the GEC (among others) strong-arming social media platforms to remove or suppress postings and subscribers that dissented from the Biden administration’s positions and policies, especially on COVID. Mark Zuckerberg just this past week belatedly discussed the heavy-handed pressure to censor dissent at Facebook as well, although he has yet to release Meta’s own files to name names.
Eventually, the courts and the public exposure forced the State Department to disband. In fact, the Daily Signal credited Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy with forced its dissolution as “DOGE’s First Scalp” in this video three weeks ago in defeating the first CR floated in December. All of this comes via Matt Taibbi this morning, to whom we…
