House Republican lawmakers on the Foreign Affairs Committee Tuesday sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken accusing the State Department’s Global Engagement Center of censorship and demanded more information.
The letter was spearheaded by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul of Texas and co-signed by Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Brian Mast of Florida, Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Chairman Chris Smith of New Jersey, Reps. Darrell Issa of California, Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, Keith Self of Texas, Cory Mills of Florida and Ken Buck of Colorado.
They wrote, “While the GEC performs some unquestionably important work, it has also provided social media companies with access to tech applications that ‘detect and either knock down or flag malign-foreign-influence activity,’ but, according to the FBI, also ‘might accidentally pick up U.S. people[‘s] information.’”
“But what concerns me more is that we have ahead of us the reauthorization of the GEC, we’ve got to put it back on the books, and there is really no way to combat Russian misinformation, their propaganda efforts, which are integral to their campaign against Ukraine, or China’s efforts to expand its reach without the GEC,” Mr. Murphy said.
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