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For years now, the left has weaponized the word “disinformation”—not as some shield for truth, but as a sword against political dissent. It became their catch-all excuse to silence opposition, throttle free speech, and label anything that didn’t fit their agenda as dangerous or false or a conspiracy theory.

And at the very center of that push was Richard Stengel, a man who proudly called himself the “chief propagandist” while he dutifully served under Obama as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy.

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Two years ago, Revolver took a deep dive into Richard Stengel and the censorship machine he helped build.

Revolver:

Self-proclaimed propaganda chief and First-Amendment-hater Richard Stengel has been exposed… again.

Thanks to the Twitter files, Stengel’s project “Hamilton 68” — a propaganda campaign created by the political establishment to smear dissenting views as “Russian disinformation” — was proven to be a complete and total scam.

 

You can read the entire article below:

Obama’s “Chief Propagandist” Richard Stengel is exposed… again…

Stengel’s role wasn’t some symbolic title. This man helped lay the foundation for what became a sprawling censorship machine inside the US government—a fine-oiled machine that worked hand-in-hand with social media giants, NGOs, and international “partners” to shape public opinion and silence what they couldn’t control.

But now, in a twist so sharp it almost feels poetic, Darren Beattie—the man who helped expose this entire apparatus through Revolver—has stepped into that same role. And unlike Stengel, Beattie isn’t using it to expand government control over speech—he’s using it to dismantle it.

The State Department just shut down the last remaining piece of the government’s censorship apparatus. All staff at the Global Engagement Center’s (GEC) R-FIMI were put on leave, 50 positions were eliminated, and Congress was notified that the program is over. That includes the termination of $65 million in funding.

It’s done.

And in yet another poetic twist, the very group that Marco Rubio and Darren Beattie just shut down had once been investigating Revolver back in 2020—for the thought-crime of exposing the left’s “color revolution” playbook against the American people.

The Global Engagement Center (GEC) worked directly with the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) to target dissent—including Revolver News and our investigative reporting on the left’s color revolution. We exposed this coordinated censorship effort two years ago.

Revolver:

As it so happens, one of the most aggressive examples of EIP’s censorship was directed at Darren Beattie and Revolver News for their reporting on a concept called “color revolutions” and for spreading the (truthful but subversive) narrative that color revolution professionals within the national security establishment were deploying the same methodologies domestically to harm Trump and Trump supporters that they would deploy overseas to undermine and overthrow so-called “authoritarian leaders” overseas.

A color revolution might be described as follows:

A “Color Revolution” in this context refers to a specific type of coordinated attack that the United States government has been known to deploy against foreign regimes, particularly in Eastern Europe deemed to be “authoritarian” and hostile to American interests. Rather than using a direct military intervention to effect regime change as in Iraq, Color Revolutions attack a foreign regime by contesting its electoral legitimacy, organizing mass protests and acts of civil disobedience, and leveraging media contacts to ensure favorable coverage to their agenda in the Western press. [Revolver]
While Revolver News is now perhaps best known for our national narrative shaping reporting on the January 6 Fedsurrection, our reporting first gained attention for our so-called Color Revolution series, documenting a handful of key color revolution professionals who were actively involved in neutralizing Trump’s presidency and electoral prospects in 2020, and deploying the same tactics against Trump that they used against so-called “authoritarian” rulers overseas in Eastern Europe.

Here is a clip of Revolver News’ Darren Beattie famously calling out Norm Eisen, a notorious color revolution professional and key hatchet man against Trump:

You can read the entire article below:

DHS-Linked Org Deploys Dangerous New Censorship Tools Against Revolver News for Color Revolution Reporting

But as we mentioned earlier, that entire Obama-era censorship machine has now been dismantled. Mike Benz, Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, took to X to announce what may be the most significant blow yet to the government’s speech suppression network.

As many of you know, Mike Benz is one of the leading voices exposing the censorship-industrial complex. He did a great job breaking down just how monumental this development really is.

Mike Benz:

This historic development today was made possible by @SecRubio and Acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy @DarrenJBeattie, as part of a complete restructuring of the State Department’s activities and capacities to prevent the abuses and weaponization of the past.

The development today is the State Department’s initiation of a RIF (Reduction In Force) that will permanently end the positions at GEC / R-FIMI, so there is no more reshuffling of positions or simple renamings of the office to carry out the same malign censorship efforts.

While GEC was formally sunset late last year after a showdown in Congress to deny its reauthorization, the Biden State Department got around this by putting GEC’s staff and operations under a new name: the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office (R-FIMI).Last month, @SecRubio and Acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy @DarrenJBeattie terminated 100+ contractors that R-FIMI worked with, which formed a deep partner web between censorship operatives in the private sector and the muscle of the US gov’t to go after speech.

But in gov’t, it’s easier to terminate a contractor than a public employee. The structuring of today’s move as Stage 1 of a RIF to eliminate the office and dissolve the office entirely prevents the possibility of bureaucratic delays that come from contesting firings.

Secretary Rubio and Acting Under Secretary Darren Beattie didn’t just cut staff—they ripped out the entire censorship apparatus by the root, leaving no room for it to be quietly renamed or resurrected later under a different banner.

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And that’s the key. This wasn’t a surface-level fix—it was a structural demolition of Obama’s speech-policing legacy.

These two are committed to promoting free speech in America, and that’s what every American should want, regardless of what side of the aisle they’re on.

Look:

Still, we can’t let our guard down. The fight for free speech is far from over, and the forces that built this censorship machine in the first place aren’t going away quietly.

But make no mistake—this move marks one of the most significant victories yet in the battle to Make America Great Again.

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