Elon Musk
@elonmusk: The worst offender in US government censorship & media manipulation is an obscure agency called GEC
5:32 PM · Feb 6, 2023
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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1622739987031552002
https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-public-diplomacy-and-public-affairs/global-engagement-center/
Establishment of the Global Engagement Center: GEC’s founding traces back to 2011 and Executive Order 13584, which established within the Department of State the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC) for the purpose of “supporting agencies in Government-wide public communications activities targeted against violent extremism and terrorist organizations.”[1] Executive Order 13721 in 2016 transformed the CSCC into the Global Engagement Center but left its counterterrorism mission largely unchanged.
GEC’s mission expanded upon enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 to include the authority to address other foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation activities. The John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 further refined this mission, and endowed it with a mandate, as reflected in GEC’s mission statement.[2]
https://www.state.gov/about-us-global-engagement-center-2/
[1] John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, Section 1284, Modifications to Global Engagement Center, P.L. 115-232, https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5515/text
[2] The White House Office of the Press Secretary, Executive Order 13584-Developing an Integrated Strategic Counterterrorism Communications Initiative, September 9, 2011, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/09/executive-order-13584-developing-integrated-strategic-counterterrorism-c