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SHOCKING: Us eliminates unit countering foreign disinformation | Mind Blowing Facts

The State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC) has long faced scrutiny from Republican lawmakers, who accused it of censoring and surveilling Americans. (Credit: AFP)

The United States on Wednesday eliminated a key government agency that tracked foreign disinformation, framing the move as an effort to preserve "free speech."

The closure of the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference hub, previously known as the Global Engagement Center (GEC), comes as leading experts monitoring propaganda have been raising the alarm about the risk of disinformation campaigns from US adversaries such as Russia and China.

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