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Marco Rubio: “Some of these people got deplatformed, they got taken down…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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State Department's Historic Move to End Government-Sponsored Censorship

Published | Video Starts at 17:22

So you look at it and say American taxpayers through the State Department were paying groups to attack Americans and to try to silence the voice of Americans. And they were consequent. These weren't just a label they put on people. Some of these people got deplatformed, they got taken down. They couldn't communicate. So it was outrageous. So before President Trump took over, they disbanded this unit. They just renamed it and moved it somewhere else. (17:22–17:27)

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Asserts that individuals were deplatformed and silenced as a result of the State Department's actions.

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