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US government agency targeting foreign disinformation shuts down

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62% Informative

The Global Engagement Center ( GEC ) was a State Department unit established in 2016 .

The GEC had an annual budget of $ 61 m and a staff of about 120 .

Republican lawmakers have long accused the centre of censoring and surveilling Americans .

Its closing leaves the State Department without a dedicated office for tracking and countering disinformation from US rivals.

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70

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73

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8

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formal

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English

Language complexity

65

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not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

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not detected

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short-lived

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