Naomi Nix and Ian Duncan, (c) 2026 , The Washington Post Tue, March 24, 2026 at 2:43 p.m. UTC 8 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In early 2025, aides to Vice President JD Vance ordered a small office at the State Department to document how European regulators were censoring online speech.