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Federal ‘censorship nerve center’ likely to shutter, but State would ‘realign’ staff for same work | Just The News

The State Department is planning to change how it engages with the globe as it braces for unified Republican government that promises to gut the so-called censorship-industrial complex, the subject of a four-part Just the News series this fall.

But like the evolution of the broader global public-private partnership to label, throttle, remove and defund purported misinformation, disinformation and “true but inconvenient” malinformation (MDM) on tech platforms, State’s change may only be in name.

State told Congress its Global Engagement Center is “substantially likely” to shut down on Festivus, according to a notice the agency gave the court overseeing the year-old outsourced-censorship lawsuit by The Daily Wire and The Federalist alleging State and GEC funded feats of strength to starve the conservative publishers of ad revenue.

The center was created in 2016 with a stated mission to “direct, lead, synchronize, integrate, and coordinate U.S. Federal Government efforts to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations.”

via justthenews.com

For “State” read “CIA.” CIA is actually under the jurisdiction of the State Department. The CIA is super woke. I don’t think they care about who won the election.