The Trump administration announced it will close a controversial Biden-era censorship office ostensibly used to counter malicious messaging from foreign actors.
The framework was established to counter disinformation from hostile foreign actors, such as terrorist groups.
The Trump State Department alleged that under former President Joe Biden, it quickly “devolved into tools for political censorship instead of protecting Americans from foreign adversarial propaganda.”
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“Under the guise of combatting ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and ‘malinformation,’ the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate. Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society,” the EO read.