Trump’s DOJ Just Dismantled the Biden Censorship Machine — And Made It Official in Federal Court

The liberal censors lost. Here’s exactly how it happened.

In a landmark settlement announced this week, the State Department has been legally barred from using technology tools to suppress, censor, demonetize, or fact-check American speech online — and the prohibition extends through 2036. The suit was filed back in 2023 by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alongside conservative outlets The Daily Wire and The Federalist, who alleged that the Biden administration weaponized the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) — ostensibly designed to counter foreign propaganda — to target domestic media for holding disfavored viewpoints on election integrity, COVID origins, and vaccine efficacy.

The Losers: The Globalist’s Censorship Industrial Complex

The GEC funded at least 300 tools used predominantly against American outlets and individuals. Independent journalist Matt Taibbi, reporting as part of the landmark Twitter Files, documented in detail how the GEC pressured social media companies to comply with its demands — and when those companies pushed back, GEC ran to friendly media outlets to manufacture public pressure from outside the government. The operation was so sloppy that a flagged list of supposed “Chinese state-backed” accounts turned out to include Western government accounts and at least three CNN employees working abroad.

The Biden administration called the plaintiffs’ claims “hyperbolic.” The settlement says otherwise.

The Winners: The First Amendment and Every American Who Values It

Secretary of State Marco Rubio buried the GEC in an April 2025 op-ed, writing plainly: “Whatever name it goes by, GEC is dead. It will not return.” The Trump administration then went further by seeking a settlement — an acknowledgment that what happened was indefensible. Daily Wire CEO Caleb Robinson captured the broader significance well, noting that the U.S. government has now formally acknowledged its censorship structures under the Biden administration and will be subject to real limitations going forward.

That acknowledgment matters more than most people realize. Governments that suppress truth rarely confess it willingly — it gets dragged out of them, one lawsuit and one court filing at a time. And that slow, costly, grinding emergence of what is real is itself a testament to something deeper than politics.

Truth has a way of winning eventually — in courtrooms, in history, and in the Kingdom of God. Whether the subject is free speech or the state of a man’s soul, what is hidden will be brought to light, and what is suppressed will surface. Jesus said it plainly: 

“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32) 

That promise doesn’t only apply to matters of faith — it applies to every arena where men try to bury what is real. The censors lost. The truth won. And it always will.

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