On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio very publicly abolished the censorship body known as the Global Engagement Center (GEC).
GEC was actually supposed to be dead already after Republicans defunded the State Department offshoot last year. However, this didn’t stop Joe Biden’s handlers from rebranding the group with a new name, the Counter Foreign Information and Interference office (R-FIMI) with the same roster of government employees.
Rubio explains how Obama’s man in charge of GEC, Rick Stengel, in 2016 twisted the mission of the organization into focusing on fake news and misinformation here at home. Stengel was a lunatic Trump hater who essentially believes that a secure democracy means “silencing the part of the electorate he doesn’t like.”
Secretary of State Rubio describes how GEC worked overtime to silence voices who challenged the official regime narrative on the COVID-19 pandemic including, its origins, treatments, natural immunity, and the experimental vaccines.
