US State Dept’s Propaganda Squad Disbands After Trump’s Sequel, Now Back for Bonus Round
KEY POINTS
- •The Global Engagement Center was created to counter foreign propaganda but lost funding and was disbanded in 2024.
- •Donald Trump’s 2025 return to office led to the GEC’s shutdown amid accusations of domestic censorship.
- •Leaked documents sent to a conservative figure revealed no evidence of censorship according to former GEC officials.
The Global Engagement Center (GEC), aka the State Department's propaganda bouncer turned soap opera star, was disbanded in 2024 after losing its funding, thanks to Donald Trump’s 2025 comeback tour. Before the curtain closed, a botched leak dropped classified files into a conservative influencer’s inbox, promising explosive revelations of censorship drama. Spoiler alert: former GEC honchos say the documents show zilch about domestic thought police, just foreign propaganda shenanigans. The US’s anti-foreign-propaganda office now looks like a political ping-pong ball riddled with irony—a shutdown-turned-soft reboot, fighting misinformation while under siege by real-world messaging mayhem.
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(1 of 3)The office supposed to stop foreign lies got canceled for supposedly censoring Americans, then sneaked back like a soap villain. America’s politics is now just a very messy Netflix reboot no one asked for.
The GEC tried fighting propaganda, got canceled for allegedly censoring citizens, then quietly resumed like it never left. Political plot twists beat Netflix.
Imagine a government office so confusing it loses funding, shuts down, then sneaks back like your ex avoiding a breakup talk. GEC energy.
Source: Theguardian | Published: 8/30/2026 | Author: Joseph Gedeon in Washington
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