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Last-minute rebranding wasn’t enough to stop Secretary of State Marco Rubio from cutting off a taxpayer-funded source of income for the “self-anointed arbiters of truth” at Newsguard.
As billionaire Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter had proved pivotal in exposing the suppression of content and shadow banning rampant on Big Tech platforms, so too had the second election of President Donald Trump appeared crucial in the ongoing fight to preserve the First Amendment.
Toward that end, last week, Rubio had announced the shutdown of the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office (R/FIMI) that had previously been known as the Global Engagement Center (GEG), which, according to the Washington Times’ editorial board, was responsible for funding organizations like Newsguard.
“Taxpayer grant money went to outfits such as NewsGuard, which purports to provide ‘reliability ratings’ for news outlets. These self-anointed arbiters of truth consistently give right-of-center publications lower scores so other members of the censorship cabal can point to that grade and force advertisers to drop their support for ‘low-rated’ media outlets,” detailed the op-ed before slamming then-President Joe Biden’s administration for support of the activist-led effort to direct money to nongovernmental organizations that claimed conservatives were spreading so-called “disinformation.”
In his announcement shutting down the GEC, Rubio had said, “Freedom of speech and expression have been a cornerstone of what it means to be an American citizen…
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