Documents leaked by Trump official to bolster a conspiracy show ‘absolutely nothing’

Inside the US state department, critics are still attacking a shuttered office established to counter foreign propaganda.

Now, some of its work is also being resumed A botched leak of purportedly explosive government files to a prominent conservative online personality was supposed to offer proof of what the Trump administration and its allies have long alleged: that a little-known office inside the US state department, created to fight foreign propaganda, had secretly become a tool for domestic censorship.

Two former high-ranking officials at the Global Engagement Center (GEC), a target of Republican ire that lost its funding in 2024 and was disbanded after Donald Trump ’s return to office in 2025, say the documents show nothing of the kind.

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