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The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and widely read around the country. The newspaper has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. It employs around 800 journalists and had a 2015 daily circulation of 356,768. Its digital circulation was 1,000,000 in 2018.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that the State Department is closing an office designed to counter foreign disinformation, stating that the effort had “spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans.”
In a live interview promoted by the State Department announcing the move, Rubio said he had authorized an investigation into how the program had been used to “deplatform” people from social networks. “We had government-sponsored censorship in the United States through the State Department,” Rubio told conservative activist Mike Benz in the interview.