The U.S. State Department says it's eliminating the Global Engagement Center

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Global Engagement Center ( GEC ) was defunded by Congress last year following scandal.

The Biden administration appeared to essentially rebrand the entity, keeping the same staff under a new name: “ the Counter-Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference hub” or R/FIMI.

GEC hosted a website called Disinfo Cloud that boosted products aimed at bankrupt conservative news outlets by convincing advertisers to boycott them.

GEC operated with a secrecy that suggested a guilty conscience.

The State Department admitted in the lawsuit to funding the Global Disinformation Index and NewsGuard through a middleman.

It refused to provide information about the activities even to Congress , forcing the House Small Business Committee to subpoena it.