By Josh Christenson and Ryan King (New York Post)
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 US 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 President Biden that backed the censorship efforts.
“Just because the GEC is shutting its doors, it doesn’t mean FGI is shutting down our investigation,” said FGI spokesman Peter McGinnis. “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.”