/1 🧵THREAD: State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) is a propaganda arm of the United States government intended to advance U.S. interests abroad.
However, it’s being abused and used to censor the American people. ⤵️
However, it’s being abused and used to censor the American people. ⤵️
/2 AFL uncovered that the Census Bureau began “combatting mis/disinformation” during the 2020 Census. To assist it in doing so, it relied on the State Department’s Global Engagement Center.
More: aflegal.org
More: aflegal.org
/3 Yet, because it is a part of the State Department, it is supposed to be used abroad in foreign countries and not domestically to censor “disinformation” from the American people.
/4 AFL also obtained documents revealing State bureaucrats at GEC used taxpayer dollars to create a video game called “Cat Park” to “Inoculate Youth Against Disinformation.”
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Read more from @FFO_Freedom report.foundationforfreedomonline.com
/5 AFL has filed 9 FOIA requests within the State Department to uncover records related to GEC grant awards which outsource the government’s propaganda and censorship of “disinformation.”
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aflegal.org
/6 AFL also sued the State Department to uncover records on the extend to which the federal government colluded with the media and Big Tech to censor Americans and shape public opinion.
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aflegal.org
/7 The tools and capabilities within this shadowy center of the federal bureaucracy are being used against the American people and undermining the First Amendment.
America First Legal is committed to uncovering the weaponization and politicization of the State Department.
America First Legal is committed to uncovering the weaponization and politicization of the State Department.
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