“We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans,” said Rubio during an April 30 Cabinet meeting at the White House, referring to the Global Engagement Center, which was rebranded as Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.
“There’s at least one person at this table today who had a dossier in that building of social media posts to identify them as purveyors of disinformation,” he said. “We have these dossiers. We are going to be turning those over to these individuals.”
Rubio did not name the person or persons to whom he was referring.Vice President JD Vance jokingly asked if it was himself or Elon Musk, who leads the administration’s Department of Government Efficiency and owns social media platform X, formerly Twitter, which critics have accused of spreading disinformation.
