"The State of Texas and media companies The Daily Wire and The Federalist have sued the US Department of State, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other government officials for engaging in a conspiracy to censor, deplatform, and demonetize American media outlets disfavored by the federal government," the release says.
The State Department utilized its Global Engagement Center to actively intervene in the news-media market seeking to limit the reach and business viability of domestic news organizations by funding censorship tech mechanisms and private censorship enterprises, the official statement reads.
"Congress authorized creation of the Global Engagement Center expressly to counter foreign propaganda and misinformation. Instead, the agency weaponized this authority to violate the First Amendment and suppress Americans’ constitutionally-protected speech," the document states.
The complaint characterizes the State Department’s project as “one of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press in the history of the nation”.