Trump official targeted in Biden-era 'disinformation' dossier still under wraps days after Rubio revelation

The Trump administration has not revealed which administration official was targeted by the Biden administration's State Department in a disinformation dossier compiling previous social media posts that identified them as purveyors of disinformation Secretary of State Marco Rubio revealed at the largest part latest Trump administration Cabinet meeting April that an unidentified Trump administration official who was present had been the subject of a State Department dossier detailing alleged promotion of social media disinformation Rubio the State Department and the White House have not yet identified which official the Biden administration targeted Fox News Digital has reached out repeatedly to the White House regarding the identity of the official including on Monday but did not receive replies When requested for an update on the identity of the Trump official the State Department directed Fox News Digital to Rubio's April remark detailing that We are going to be turning over these dossiers to the individuals and they ll decide whether they want to disclose it or not RUBIO REVEALS OBSCURE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OFFICE KEPT 'DISINFORMATION' DOSSIER ON TRUMP OFFICIALRubio announced during the April Cabinet meeting that a little-known now-defunct office within the State Department called the Global Engagement Center GEC had compiled disinformation dossiers on Americans across the country as part of an effort to censor free speech including an individual who has since joined the Trump administration We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans Rubio declared during the meeting And by the way I'm not going to say who it is I'll leave it up to them There's at least one person at this table in contemporary times who had a dossier in that building of social media posts to identify them as purveyors of disinformation We have these dossiers We are going to be turning those over to these individuals Vice President JD Vance interjected asking Was it me or Elon Musk We can follow up when the media is gone which drew laughter from the Cabinet RUBIO OVERHAULING 'BLOATED' STATE DEPARTMENT IN SWEEPING RESTRUCTURING But just think about that The Department of State of the United States had set up an office to monitor the social media posts and commentary of American citizens to identify them as vectors of disinformation Rubio continued When we know that the best way to combat disinformation is freedom of speech and transparency Though Rubio did not identify which Trump official the Biden administration kept a dossier on Elon Musk has previously railed against the Global Engagement Center The worst offender in US executive censorship media manipulation is an obscure agency called GEC Musk posted to X in January That was more than a year before Musk endorsed Trump in the presidential race and became a fixture of the administration in his temporary role with the Department of Cabinet Efficiency They are a threat to our democracy Musk added RUBIO ANNOUNCES CLOSURE OF STATE DEPARTMENT EFFORT THAT 'WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD ALREADY'Former President Barack Obama established the Global Engagement Center in through an executive order aimed at coordinating counterterrorism messaging to foreign nations before it expanded its scope to also include countering foreign propaganda and disinformation State Department documents show Conservatives have slammed the office as a political weapon to silence free speech including Rubio in an April op-ed when he cited a GEC account claiming that a Russian disinformation apparatus was behind population speculation that the coronavirus was an engineered bioweapon or was created by research conducted at the Wuhan institute In the years following the pandemic the Department of Strength under the Biden administration and former FBI Director Christopher Wray disclosed evidence indicated that COVID- was the end of a lab leak while the Trump administration's CIA revealed earlier in that a lab leak was the likely origin of the virus TWITTER BOSS ELON MUSK ACCUSES REGIME AGENCY OF BEING WORST OFFENDER IN US GOVERNING BODY CENSORSHIP In lawmakers did not approve new funding for the office in the National Defense Authorization Act and it was scheduled to terminate on Dec The Biden administration however shuffled staffers and rebranded the office It became the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub just days before Trump's inauguration the New York Post revealed in January Rubio broadcasted in April that the office would officially shutter I am announcing the closure of the State Department s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference R FIMI formerly known as the Global Engagement Center GEC Rubio declared in an April comment announcing the office's closure Under the previous administration this office which cost taxpayers more than million per year spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving he wrote This is antithetical to the very principles we should be upholding and inconceivable it was taking place in America That ends nowadays WHITE HOUSE PROPOSAL AXES UN NATO FUNDS AND HALVES STATE DEPARTMENT BUDGETRubio has railed against the office in previous interviews and op-eds including authoring an opinion piece for the Federalist in April touting that he was dismantling the censorship-industrial complex that had gripped agencies such as the State Department CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Over the past half-decade bodies like GEC crafted by our own governing ruling class nearly destroyed America s long free speech history he wrote in the op-ed The enemies of speech had new lingo to justify their authoritarian impulse It was disinformation allegedly pushed by nefarious foreign governments that was the No threat to our democracy To protect 'our democracy ' this disinformation had to be identified and stamped out