State Department documents reveal secret plans to route ‘censorship’ office to new hub
The State Department has crafted plans to distribute staffers from a shuttered office accused of censoring conservatives to a new internal “hub” that will coordinate its activities, according to documents obtained by the Washington Examiner…
“Given the evidence shows that the GEC has long ignored its congressional mandate to focus solely on foreign disinformation, its continuation under a so-called hub is extremely troubling,” said Margot Cleveland, an attorney for the New Civil Liberties Alliance. The legal nonprofit group is representing conservative media outlets that are suing the GEC for funding the Global Disinformation Index and a New York-based company called NewsGuard.
The outlets, the Federalist and the Daily Wire, joined the State of Texas in the December 2023 lawsuit accusing the GEC of facilitating “one of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press in the history of the nation,” according to a complaint.
Cleveland added that the State Department has declined to share the congressional notification as part of the alleged censorship lawsuit with the NCLA’s clients…
January 2, 2025
Originally Published in Washington Examiner