Rubio Reveals Biden State Dept Tracked American Citizens for ‘Disinformation’

Secretary of State Marco Rubio disclosed that under the Biden administration, the State Department ran a covert operation to track and document social media posts made by American citizens branding them as "vectors of disinformation."

Rubio stunned the room by stating, “We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans.” And it wasn’t just theoretical the department reportedly compiled actual dossiers on individuals, including at least one current cabinet member.

“I’m not going to say who it is, I’ll leave it up to them,” Rubio said. “There’s at least one person at this table today who had a dossier in that building.”

The room erupted in laughter when Vice President JD Vance asked, “Was it me or Elon?” But behind the humor lies a disturbing truth a U.S. government agency was spying on its own citizens for expressing views it deemed unacceptable.

Let’s not sugarcoat this. This wasn’t foreign surveillance. This was the Biden State Department, using taxpayer dollars to monitor Americans their tweets, posts, and opinions and create internal files labeling them as disinformation threats.

This is exactly the kind of soft-totalitarianism Americans rejected at the ballot box.

While Rubio didn’t reveal all the names, he promised transparency going forward: “We are going to turn over these dossiers to the individuals, and they will decide whether they want to disclose it or not.”

Here’s why this should outrage every freedom-loving American:

• The First Amendment explicitly protects speech including speech the government doesn’t like.

• During Biden’s tenure, the federal government colluded with social media companies to suppress dissenting views, including those on COVID, the 2020 election, and gender ideology.

• The Biden administration also pushed for the failed “Disinformation Governance Board” a Ministry of Truth in all but name before massive backlash forced it to shut down.

This newly revealed State Department office appears to be yet another tentacle of the same censorship machine.

It tracked Americans. It compiled files. And it operated without oversight, cloaked in the false banner of “fighting disinformation.” What it was really doing was silencing dissent.

Secretary Rubio made it clear that the Trump administration will shut down these Orwellian operations and restore the proper role of government protecting rights, not suppressing them.

“This is not who we are. The best way to combat disinformation is freedom of speech and transparency,” Rubio said. And he’s right.

If unelected bureaucrats can decide what’s “true” and what’s “dangerous,” free speech ceases to exist and democracy dies in the dark.

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