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Rubio announces closure of State Department effort that ‘was supposed to be dead already’

April 17, 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the closure of a State Department effort that he accused of spending millions on censorship. “I am announcing the closure of the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI), formerly known as the Global Engagement Center (GEC),” Rubio said in a statement issued on Wednesday. “Under the previous administration, this office, which cost taxpayers more than $50 million per year, spent millions of dollars to...

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