The State Department insists the agency was successful at tracking propaganda and disinformation campaigns from US adversaries such as Russia and China.

This is false. Their main focus was targeting American and foreign media sites that promoted Donald Trump and populism and rejected the dominating and godless globalist movement in the world today.

The Global Engagement Initiative was notorious for blacklisting and censoring conservative and independent media outlets like The
Gateway Pundit.

Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who has led efforts against government censorship of American websites cheered the news.
Via Newsmax.

It had approximately 120 staff members and an annual budget of $61 million.

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., last week called on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to cut off funding for the GEC, which he said, "mutated into a massive censorship machine designed to suppress narratives that question establishment thinking."

The State Department originally said it intended to shut down the agency, but the CR bill lawmakers fought over last week still had funding for the GEC.

The new version of the short-term spending bill agreed to by lawmakers scrapped that.

The Global Engagement Center is not the only State Department funded censorship operations.