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The State Department’s Global Engagement Center has been shut down

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Global Engagement Center called out Russian and Chinese propaganda campaigns.

Critics say it's part of a larger effort by the Trump administration to withdraw from a decades -long contest of ideas and information with America ’s adversaries.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the move “a crucial step” in an op-ed for the right-wing site The Federalist .

A deal to re-authorize funding for the GEC , due to run out in 2024 , fell apart after “ Elon Musk got involved,” a source said; the Center was officially disbanded, but about 50 staffers and $30 million in funding were moved to a “Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub” in the hopes of proving the value of such an operation to their new MAGA superiors.

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