Government funded a weapon to fight terrorism — and then used it in test on Blaze Media

It didn’t take long for a federal government agency originally designed to censor certain foreign entities and curate their narratives on terrorism to be turned on Americans.

Then-President Barack Obama issued an executive order in 2011 establishing the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications within the State Department — an agency tasked initially with “using communication tools to reduce radicalization by terrorists and extremist violence and terrorism that threaten the interests and national security of the United States.”

Obama broadened the mission of the agency and renamed it the Global Engagement Center in another executive order just months prior to President Donald Trump’s electoral victory in 2016.

‘Greatest level of disinformation risk.’

The Global Engagement Center — overseen by a steering committee of deep-state officials, codified into law in the