State Dept. Ends Propaganda Operation

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday that he’s going above and beyond to continue protecting the free speech of every citizen in the United States — something that State Department wasn’t doing previously. As a matter of fact, the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) had “actively silenced and censored the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving” — particularly conservatives  — and we were paying at least $50 million per year for it to do so. 

But Rubio has now shut it down, placing 30 full-time staff members on leave, eliminating all 50 full-time staff positions, and letting Congress know that it no longer exists, so there’s no need to keep pumping taxpayer dollars into it. According to the MIT Technology Review, “…employees at R/FIMI received an email, inviting them to an 11:15AM meeting with [Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Darren] Beattie, where employees were told that the office and their jobs have been eliminated.” More