The Trump administration has not revealed which administration official was targeted by the Biden administration's State Department in a "disinformation" dossier compiling previous social media posts that identified them as "purveyors of disinformation." (Getty Images)
Rubio said during the April 30 Cabinet meeting that a little-known, now-defunct office within the State Department called the Global Engagement Center (GEC) had compiled disinformation dossiers on Americans across the country as part of an effort to "censor" free speech, including an individual who has since joined the Trump administration.
"We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans," Rubio said during the meeting. "And, by the way, I'm not going to say who it is. I'll leave it up to them. There's at least one person at this table today who had a dossier in that building of social media posts to identify them as purveyors of disinformation. We have these dossiers. We are going to be turning those over to these individuals."
Vice President JD Vance interjected, asking, "Was it me or Elon (Musk)? We can follow up when the media is gone," which drew laughter from the Cabinet.
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Marco Rubio said during the April 30 Cabinet meeting that a little-known, now-defunct office within the State Department called the Global Engagement Center (GEC) had compiled disinformation dossiers on Americans across the country as part of an effort to "censor" free speech. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency)
In the years following the pandemic, the Department of Energy under the Biden administration and former FBI Director Christopher Wray said evidence indicated that COVID-19 was the result of a lab leak, while the Trump administration's CIA reported earlier in 2025 that a lab leak was the likely origin of the virus.
In 2024, lawmakers did not approve new funding for the office in the National Defense Authorization Act, and it was scheduled to terminate on Dec. 23, 2024. The Biden administration, however, shuffled staffers and rebranded the office.
It became the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub just days before Trump's inauguration, the New York Post reported in January.
Rubio announced in April that the office would officially shutter.
Though Marco Rubio did not identify which Trump official the Biden administration kept a dossier on, Elon Musk has previously railed against the Global Engagement Center. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
Rubio has railed against the office in previous interviews and op-eds, including authoring an opinion piece for the Federalist in April touting that he was dismantling the "censorship-industrial complex" that had gripped agencies such as the State Department.
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"Over the past half-decade, bodies like GEC, crafted by our own governing ruling class, nearly destroyed America’s long free speech history," he wrote in the op-ed. "The enemies of speech had new lingo to justify their authoritarian impulse. It was "disinformation," allegedly pushed by nefarious foreign governments, that was the No. 1 threat to ‘our democracy.’ To protect 'our democracy,' this ‘disinformation’ had to be identified and stamped out."
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