The U.S. State Department and several Biden administration officials have been sued by the State of Texas and a pair of conservative media organizations for allegedly conspiring to censor, deplatform, and demonetize news outlets that are disfavored by the federal government.
The complaint, which was filed on Dec. 6 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, accuses the State Department of acting through its Global Engagement Center (GEC) to fund and otherwise back censorship technology and private censorship enterprises “to covertly suppress speech of a segment of the American press.”
