Rubio announced the shuttering of the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office, formerly known as the Global Engagement Center (GEC), accusing it of ...

The State Department has shut down the office that sought to deal with misinformation and disinformation that Russia, China and Iran have been accused of spreading.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday he was shutting down a State Department office that had sought to counter foreign disinformation, accusing it of censorship and wasting U.S.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced ... s funding at the end of last year, the Biden State Department simply slapped on a new name. The GEC became the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that the State Department is closing an office designed to counter foreign disinformation ... amid other efforts to end policing and monitoring ...

Government involvement in countering misinformation will inevitably allow ideological and political bias to seep in, corrupting free expression and the search for truth.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ... countering foreign propaganda and disinformation, State Department documents show. In 2024, lawmakers did not approve new funding for the office in the National ...

The most important thing [the United States] need(s) to do is return American foreign policy to be centered on our national ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) engaged in a heated exchange during a Senate Foreign ...

Rubio made the remarks during a round-table meeting of Cabinet officials. “We had an office ... now-shuttered State Department entity originally established to counter foreign disinformation ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ... foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts.” “But just think about that. The Department of State of the United States had set up an ...