Watchdog sues State Department for records on censorship efforts, funding for ad 'blacklist' that included The Post | 31 dec 2024 | The State Department has been hit with a lawsuit demanding records pertaining to its now-defunct Global Engagement Center (GEC) subagency, which leaned on social media companies to suppress Americans' free speech and funneled U.S. taxpayers' money to groups even trying to "blacklist" The Post. The Functional Government Initiative watchdog group filed the suit Monday to obtain potentially damning US government communications -- following months of stonewalling by the agency about its grants under Joe Biden that backed the censorship efforts. "The layers of the Biden-Harris State Department's censorship industrial complex must be exposed so that all which occurred in 2020, along with any attempts to suppress free speech during the 2024 election, comes to light," said FGI spokesman Peter McGinnis.

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