The U.S. Agency for International Development coordinated closely with a State Department program to block what it considered “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation,” according to newly released government documents.
America First Legal, a conservative legal group, obtained more than 200 pages from the State Department through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit about the Global Engagement Center, or GEC.
The documents also show the controversial Global Engagement Center—which a congressional report concluded was federally-funded censorship—has cooperated with private journalism organizations.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, spanning the last year of the first Trump administration and early years of the Biden administration, the GEC and USAID worked together to stop what the agencies deemed “COVID-19 misinformation” and oppose…
